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  • From: lee sharp <sharplr@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Now I know why I haven't taken up grafting....
  • Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:47:21 -0700 (PDT)

Hi Rodney,
One thing Tom forgot to tell you is that grafting is
so easy that it happens more than one would think in
nature just as a result of two limbs crossing. I have
seen this more than once with pear trees.

Lee Sharp
--- Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net> wrote:
> Hi Rodney,
>
> I wrote you privately, but I wanted to say this
> publicly.
>
> Grafting is easy. Grafting is simple. Man has done
> it for thousands of years with the simplest of
> tools. Yes, it can sound daunting and complicated,
> but it isn't.
>
> Start simple and work your way up. Start with
> inexpensive (free) rootsock and scion. Use a sharp
> pocket knife. Collect long fat rubber bands. Get a
> couple of trees under you belt and you will
> wonder why you hesitated.
>
> If I wrote a few thousand words telling you how to
> do the "dog paddle", I am sure you would be
> confused in minutes, and swear off swimming for
> life. But if I got you in a pond for 5 minutes you
> would be beating me in a race across the pond.
>
> Dive into grafting. Use what you have around or in
> the junk drawer. Hey, what you have in your
> junk drawer would be "magic" to those ancient
> gardeners, and they could graft.
>
> You can do it. Honest.
>
> Later,
> Tom
>
>

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