The end buds will tend to leaf out first. It's OK to take a piece that's leafing, but it won't keep long in the fridge before you have to graft it.

Wide node spacing is easiest for doing whip grafting. Some people don't like to graft from scionwood taken from watersuckers, as you sometimes get the rootstock or a weird mutant from them. I've never had a problem with it, but I use watersuckers from low branches, not the base of the tree. On older trees, they might be the only bit of last year's growth vigorous enough to be graftable.

Buds such as on the left sample are starting to leaf and should be grafted in a few days. Buds on the right sample are still dormant, and can be kept in the fridge for a month.

You want to collect your samples after you've had some warm days, but before the leafing gets going. That way, the sap is running, and there's a lot of sugars in the branches to help the graft take.

Take your scionwood with a regular pruning tool, and, as usual, sterilize it prior to each cut.

Ideally, your samples should be about the thickness of a pencil. That never happens. A little smaller is just fine, but the thinner you go, the less likely it is for the graft to take.

Wrap singly in wetted and thoroughly wrung paper towels and over-wrap with cling plastic film.

Below are in depth PDFs for further reading about propagating fruit trees, give it a try this year

Good thoughts in this one. https://youtu.be/PpwY0Z5mbMA

Stop using crutches. All too often I see hopeless over-dependent people. If you find yourself unable to function on a daily basis without some concoction of drugs/chemicals/food, I want you to stop everything you are doing and self reflect. Think about it this way, we all know how anabolic steroids take over your bodies' natural testosterone production; your body can no longer produce the hormone and thus you depend on the steroids for testosterone. You can apply this to virtually anything. Antidepressants take over your dopamine and seratonin production, eye glasses cause eye muscle degeneration, caffeine hijacks your adrenaline production, elevators and escalators hijack your gains ect ect. Fuel your body with vitamins and nutrition, work out, sleep 8hrs every night and wake up early white man! Now is not the time to falter, you will be amazed at what you can achieve, stop using crutches. And DO NOT take that vaccine

For those of you growing tomatoes in hot environments you may notice that the leaves may be curling as a response to heat stress. This can affect crop yields.

There are also a few other causes related to environmental factors that cause this such as low/high moisture and nitrogen imbalance.

Read about it here

https://ipm.missouri.edu/MEG/2019/7/tomatoLeafCurl/

Shade cloths can help mitigate the sudden heat stress when temperatures start to rise.

If you do live around an environment with hot summers, there are varieties specially designed to react better to heat. Most modern high yield varieties were developed based of the Rutgers (new jersey) tomato so keep that in mind.

Cutting. You need a tool that can cut, in order to prepare fires, build shelters, make traps, defend yourself, process game, and make tools. A bushcrafter prides themselves in what they can do with their knife, and a hiker or camper realizes even opening a mylar food package is tough without one. Knife skills are the foundation of all your other abilities.

Notice that all knives for bushcraft look very similar in blade length, design, and handle. It works. Sometimes you just have a folding knife or multitool, and in a pinch they will get you by. But the chance of failure and injury is higher when batonning or making a through hole. 4-5 inches, with a drop point blade. Avoid serrations or combo blades or anything else.

To know what you want in a blade, start with a mora or bps knife, since they're cheap, and use it. The Golden rule is to make a try stick, and that will quickly teach you if the blade will work for survival or bushcraft or not.

Knife point guide

Simple catfish filet, last step optional. I like to cook with the skin depending on the fish

Odd method of removing deer skin. If you have a decent air compressor, give it a shot