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  • From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Dogwood Grafting??
  • Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 18:21:11 +0000

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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