Hetty, or anyone else that has experienced this, please tell me what to do. Last year I posted a couple of pictures of my first-time grafting, and to say the least, thought the grafts "took", they are ugly. I did both the angle and the "V" grafts. Is there anything I can do to clean up those graft sites. Perhaps just shaving down the knobby areas so that they are smooth? I assume these shaved areas would callus over and the plant would be OK, but would the callus be more aesthetic than the uneven graft portions?

Leave the graft sites alone. Definitely do not shave down the knobby areas. I can assure you that once these are trees nobody will notice the graft; but if it bothers you it is perfectly OK to bury the stalk up to the graft site.

OK, Hetty, you are the expert. I will just leave those ugly grafts alone and try to do a better, more aesthetic grafting job in the future.

Practice makes perfect

People have long said I was a perfectionist, so I hope so!

Dutchlady1 said:Leave the graft sites alone. Definitely do not shave down the knobby areas. I can assure you that once these are trees nobody will notice the graft; but if it bothers you it is perfectly OK to bury the stalk up to the graft site.