Pecan Budder Pattern

A form of grafting known as “patch budding” is used with pecan trees. It requires placing a precisely cut “patch”, containing a bud, into an identically cut hole in the bark of the host tree. To make the cuts exactly the same size requires a knife with two parallel blades approximately one inch apart. The pecan budder looks like two single-bladed jack knives assembled with a thick spacer between them.