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["Mark Lee" <piper3@uswest.net>]

Thanks for all the discussion on this topic.  I think what I did 
wrong was not getting a good seal over the graft.  I put parafilm or 
the budding rubber, and I didn't notice anyone else doing it in that 
order. I also only put one layer of parafilm without much overlap.  I 
didn't stretch the parafilm, so it wasn't on as well as it could have 
been.  I think next year I will go back to my low tech tape method of 
grafting that used to work well for me.

I think I need to learn how to do bud or chip grafting.  How do 
people exchange apple wood by mail when they do this kind of 
grafting?  Do you send just the buds or whole sections of scionwood?

If I can find fellow NAFEX'ers that can share material for bud/chip 
grafts, maybe I'll give it a try this summer.  Here is a list of the 
varieties that didn't take for me this Spring.  Reply to me offline 
at markl@nytec.com if you know a source of the following for summer 
grafting:
Palouse
Mantet
July Red
Geneva Early
Milton
Williams Early Red
Sweet Bough
Coles Quince
Coes Golden Drop
Epicure
Sweet Sixteen
Sinta
Signe Tillisch
Sandow
Saint Edmunds Pippin
Ribston Pippin
Red Ester
Pitmaston Pineapple
Paulared
Milo Gibson
Jefferis
Grimes Golden
Cinnamon Spice
Hudsons Golden Gem
Calville Blanc

Thanks,
Mark Lee


 

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