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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 10:41 PM 06/08/2002 -0400, Gordon Nofs wrote:
>  The majority of all my grafts are as close to shest hieght as I can get. 
> lot are mostly about 3 foot. Only do close to ground work if I graft 
> small stuff and have small scions.
>   I have never seen or noticed any difference.

I agree.  I've grafted onto combo M111/M9 rootstocks in the past , some 
with as much as 2-3 ft of the M9 interstem above ground(the M111/M9 union 
below ground level), and I can't see any difference in them, as contrasted 
to those grafted lower, within 6 inches or so of ground level - except that 
the high-grafted ones seem to want to grow horizontally in relation to the 
'trunk' - but that may be more a consequence of my lack of training new 
growth after the scion pushed growth.
Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY