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["H.Dessureault" <inter.verbis@atreide.net>]

I have been following attentively the exchange on budding material and I though I would add my preferrences to the list.

I use rubber bands (blue flat and sort of slippery from powder or something)

I wrap with surveyor's tape (bought for a few dollars a roll, they come in different bright colours which can be seen from a distance. A roll lasts forever. It stretches like the parafilm you are describing and Victoria described a while ago the method she uses with surveyor's tape but without rubber bands. I tried it when I ran out of rubber bands and it works though it does require some skills.

When I am pressed for time, I use the different colours of surveyor's tape to identify temporarily the varieties.

To date, I am happy with my grafting results, this year.

Hélène, zone 3

Where the rain clouds have been twirling in a massive circle for the last week, apparently pushed by the cold air produced by glaciers descending from the Artic in the Atlantic Ocean.

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