Nice work, Shawn!!! This thread does a great job of showing what's needed for success in grafting sans greenhouse. Your results are looking great, much better than what I did my first attempt at grafting. A couple thoughts: I like your broom quite a bit. Did you mention that it get's the 'comet' part of its name from the shape of the broom and overall appearance in the sky, as we can see from your picture? It will be interesting too see if the daughter plants assume this low, spreading form. That, and the good green color we can see in your graft, make for a nice (and unique) strobus broom. Regarding your need to spray...yes, it's sometimes necessary but also I'll suggest that it is possible for there to be too much moisture in the chamber. Overall, there should never be condensation on the plants themselves. Condensation on the walls of the chamber indicates that you've done a good job getting the RH up, but if there's too much (droplets falling down the side a lot) you may want to cut back. Many years I've no need to spray at all. You're right, brand new grafting knives are not sufficiently sharp! If you don't mind ~20 min of boring work, it's easy to sharpen yourself using a whetstone such as this one at Amazon. The advantage to doing it yourself is that if your doing a lot of grafting, you can resharpen it multiple times throughout the grafting season. I sharpen the blade before every grafting session. In the Fincham grafting video he goes over how to do it, and I'm sure lots of other places too. We can talk about it offline sometime if you like, the important thing is to only use water, never oil, when sharpening your blade. I'll try and get some pictures of my 'Mason's Comet' grafts to post here some time this weekend.

Fraker -- Hope you're still on this site from time to time. We're in the process of possibly buying a home in N NV that has an installed Four Seasons sunroom -- a big one -- about 1300 sq ft. It's 10 yrs old and the local installer folded 7 years ago. The structure appears to be in good shape but I'm no expert & the seller (owner) notes they had to make three "cosmetic" repairs where there were leaks (where the sunroom structure attaches to the house) last month prior to listing it for sale. I cannot see where they leaked or where the repairs were made. It appears professionally done. Does your unit look anything like this one? You can see the owners installed 2 extra heaters and good quality sunshades on all the horizontal windows. Thanks! MG

we are in final design phase for building a new house. we both wanted a screen porch and the plan we have incorporates a porch under the roof line. because we will have living space below this porch area we have to put in a 4 season porch... however, I still want it to feel as similar to a screenporch as possible when I have the windows open. is anyone familiar with a brand of windows that looks like the window in the attached picture but has glass vs the super thick vinyl that is pictured here? these work great for 3 season, but not what we are looking for.

Just for general info...there are widow cleaning products that you just spray on ...via a hose ....from outside...just spray and let dry naturally...for spotless windows....also the windows can start from 18”-36” above floor level ...and still provide the panoramic views ...and double paned windows will be necessary to control interior temperatures ,of course...we have a very similar situation in our summer home....and added exhaust fans on the ceiling/roof ...to suck out the hot air in summer ....to avoid the need to use the air conditioning excessively..