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["del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>]

> choosing vigorous branches, then in early August, making a stab incision 
> through the limb, in the previous year's growth, just below where growth 
> initiated this year, inserting a toothpick into the incision to hold it 
> open, then  cutting
> just below the incision in Oct-January, dipping in rooting hormone  and
> lining out in a cold-frame.  *Supposedly* this will work for almost  any
> hardwood or evergreen, with relatively high success rates.  Based on  the
> idea that cuttings must callus before they will root - the wound you  
> create
> in August has a chance to begin callusing before the tree shuts down for 
> the winter, and then the cuttings get a chance to initiate root  formation 
> before spring.

This is pretty interesting, wouldn't cutting off a peice or pieces  of  the 
bark with a knife do the same thing?   If the toothpick wasn't used would 
the wound heal too soon?  Del

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