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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Graft question
  • Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:56:49 -0700

I did just that graft with several partly girdled trees one time and it worked fine. The graft is visible only as a small ridge on the trunk now.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
On Apr 24, 2006, at 12:24 PM, mauch1@aol.com wrote:

<x-tad-bigger>I have apple tree whose root has sent up a sucker, probably because I suspect there's crown gall somewhere underneath the graft.  Question is as both the tree and the rootstock are leafed out, could an inarch graft be done using this rootstock sucker?  I was thinking of lifting the bark on the tree, and have sliced the rootstock off as if whip graft, and removing any other growth from the sucker insert it in the bark and tie down.</x-tad-bigger>
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<x-tad-bigger>Any chance it would work?  Alternatives anyone could suggest?</x-tad-bigger>



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