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  • From: Jwlehman@aol.com
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] slow grafts
  • Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 06:15:04 EDT

In a message dated 5/30/2006 8:47:12 AM Eastern Standard Time, lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu writes:

With persimmons, I try to 'patrol' the orchard or nursery beds at
least every other day to rub off any new shoots arising below the
graft - if  you don't do so, the rootstocks very quickly divert all
resources to pushing growth on their own shoots, at the expense of
the grafted scion.


Lucky is correct, especially on persimmon. But believe it generally true for most species. The understock seemingly aborts the foreign material, the scion, in favor of it's own. Certainly takes nourishment from the graft.

Jerry



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