Hi all, I wanted to see what the plumeria forum thought about this. I'm pretty experienced with grafting other plants (citrus, mango, hibiscus), but Plumeria has been kind of tricky for me. I liked the look of slant grafting, so I gave it a go with that technique. I used calipers to make sure the scion and rootstock were equal size and made the slant at the same angle, so the two matched very well, but as soon as I began to tighten the zip ties, the scion and rootstock started slipping away from each other. I tried several times with several different angles, and I had the same result every time. I ended up using rubber bands and that worked okay, but I still had some problems with slippage. Has anyone here experienced this before?

You may want to use pins (straight sewing pins) to hold them together while you put the zip ties on, and leave them in for a week or so until the graft has started to heal. Then you can take the pins out. Some people also use staples to hold the two sides together.