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  • From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] rubber constrictors
  • Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 23:40:25 +0000

Ouch. Have you ever tried grafting w/ rubber electrician's splicing tape? It seals against itself but also degrades quickly enough to free up the girth. After trying other tapes, wraps, straps, & grafting waxes, I now use R.E.S.T. only.

tc




From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] rubber constrictors
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 22:12:56 +0000

I have been giving my young orchard its first haircut today - after 3 orchardist friends gave me their varied pruning opinions, what a great feeling. Each tree has been inside a 16" diameter chicken wire cage, somehwhat deformed, but they missed deer depradation until I could get up a fence. I was pruning my one prize 4' high Ure pear (on ussuriensis) and it broke off at the graft, almost effortlessly. Not a happy moment! Sure enough, there was a single remnant of rubber band completely encircling the graft. Lesson learned, now I have lots of Ure scionwood to play with, Del

Del Stubbs www.pinewoodforge.com ag zone2/3






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