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  • From: "Christopher Mauchline" <mauch1@aol.com>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Re: Bud Grafting Timing
  • Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:27:03 -0000

Tom,
Good luck, I'm on my 3rd year of attempting T-budding and chip
budding w/ no success although I have good success w/ whip&tongue.

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6

--- In nafex@egroups.com, Tom Olenio <tolenio@s...> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have a question regarding the opportune time to bud graft.
>
> According to the hardiness zone map of Ontario, I am in zone
> 6a. According to what I have read about bud grafting it
> should be done when the bark slips easily, which is usually
> late July, into August.
>
> With our very wet spring, and very cool/wet summer that
> followed, will the period of optimum "bark slipping" be
> pushed off due to the cool nights? Should I wait longer or
> go ahead?
>
> Possibly someone could review how to determine if the bark
> is slipping enough to bud graft for a rookie.
>
> It may be a dumb question, but I have never bud grafted
> before.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
> --
> Thomas Olenio
> Ontario, Canada
> Hardiness Zone 6a


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