Cutting/Grafting Idea New to Me

[jmaler]

I was facebooking fellow figgers today when I saw a photo of a BM cutting with all (5) bud nodes cut off. Accompanying photos showed bud grafts on a well established fig tree. Wonder if the cutting would root without nodes?

I am thinking what a great way to spread the risk of rooting an expensive fig cutting, five chances vs one.

I would like to hear what others think about this. What about you guys who are into grafting, what do you think about this?

I have thoughts about learning to graft next season and this idea is something I would like to do.

How difficult is bud grafting compared to other grafting methods?

[Hershell]

I have good results grafting but budding gives me a problem sometimes forcing the but to grow. With a graft it has the terminal bud so it doesn't need to be forced and budding requires the bark to slip grafting doesn't unless spring or bark grafting.

[Harborseal]

After the word, ''forced'', the rest of the sentence is hard for me to understand. Would you clarify it for me? I mean this phrase:


and budding requires the bark to slip grafting doesn't unless spring or bark grafting.