I was thinking of spending a couple of days and putting together a quick film on simple grafting using a few different techniques, then offering it for sale on a “donation” basis.
It’s grafting season. I have trees, I have scion wood and I have a knife.
Why not?
I don’t do all the grafts (such as bud grafting or bark grafts), but I have become quite proficient with a few other methods and have the fruit to prove it.
Since this writing thing is my main gig, I just want to see if there’s any interest out there before I do something like that.
My time is tight since I spend a lot of time working on posts and articles.
If you all want me to do a grafting demonstration and think that would be worth donating a couple of bucks towards, let me know in the comments.
UPDATE Feb 2nd, 2017:
I made the film – it’s here for a donation of any amount.
12 responses to “A Film on Grafting?”
Since you have fairly broad set of multimedia now (books, videos, audio, etc.), why not put together a small crowd funding campaign and create packages of your stuff at various price points? That way I can not only say I’m interested, I can actually pre-order and pick up some of your books and other stuff. Not sure how time consuming all that is, but I’m sure you can figure it out.
Great idea, Dominic. I’m not a particularly good marketer in general but I’ll look into how all that works.
Do it!!!!! I’m in!!
Yes! Please make a video on grafting. I would love to do this but don’t really know how.
Yes, do it please!
A video would be nice, but I can’t see it being very profitable. YouTube has some very good grafting videos available for free…in fact, that’s how I learned to graft myself.
“YouTube has some very good grafting videos”
True, but they don’t have me in them. No random music, no gardening pros pretending to cut off their own fingers, no one-liners…
I would be interested. My grandfather grafted all sorts of things all over the place but I never got around to learning that from him before he passed, and I really enjoy your way of explaining all things dirt and tree related, so again, yes I am interested!
You know i am in on that, film it or i come over and watch!! Your option!! If you need a camera man, i would even try out for the position!!
You’re awesome, Curtiss – thank you.
I need this!
I want to plant some trees and grapevines, and will want to graft branches onto them.
Great. I’m going to do it. Hopefully will have it recorded, edited and available within a week.