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["tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>]

Ouch.  Have you ever tried grafting w/ rubber electrician's splicing tape?  
It seals against itself but also degrades quickly enough to free up the 
girth.  After trying other tapes, wraps, straps, & grafting waxes, I now use 
R.E.S.T. only.

tc




> From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] rubber constrictors
> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 22:12:56 +0000
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> I have been giving my young orchard its first haircut today - after 3 
> orchardist friends gave me their varied pruning opinions, what a great 
> feeling. Each tree has been inside a 16" diameter chicken wire cage, 
> somehwhat deformed, but they missed deer depradation until I could get up a 
> fence. I was pruning my one prize 4' high Ure pear (on ussuriensis) and it 
> broke off at the graft, almost effortlessly. Not a happy moment! Sure 
> enough, there was a single remnant of rubber band completely encircling the 
> graft. Lesson learned, now I have lots of Ure scionwood to play with, Del
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> Del Stubbs  www.pinewoodforge.com  ag zone2/3
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