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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] bleeding grafts

One method of avoiding bleeding in nut trees and grapes is to save dormant scions and graft them on new, green shoots.  The green shoots don't bleed and dormant scions are less prone to drying out the way green to green grafts can do.  
-Lon Rombough
> I was loaned a wonderful little 1950's book by Carl Weschke 'Growing Nuts in 
> the North'. He mentions grafting nuts after the leaves start to come out (on 
> planted trees), but this causes considerable sap bleeding. His method of 
> getting around this is to cut the rootstock - then wait several days before 
> commencing with grafting. I am wondering if this might not have merit with 
> stone fruit like apricots that seem to need higher temperatures to callus? I 
> remember Bob Purvis saying to graft apricots late to get as much heat as 
> possible, but not so late that they fill the graft with running sap. 6"snow 
> today, Del
>
> Del Stubbs  www.pinewoodforge.com  ag zone2/3