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["Richard O'Barr" <aatopgunaa@mindspring.com>]

What about toxic substances in the paint. Latex is better. I use a ziplock
and tie it at top and bottom around the grafts. Get 98%. These are with
cleft grafts.
                                                             Topgun
                                                              Zone 7
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Woods" <gwoods@albany.net>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 2:09 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Grafting-where did I go wrong


> Stop me before I murder some more perfectly good scions:
>
> Last spring, I got several apple scions through the Seed Saver's Exchange.
> I had read up on grafting, attended a session at the meet in Decorah the
> previous summer, got a nice sharp knife that passed the thumb test
> (fortunately, the cut was so clean it healed quickly!), and all that.
>
> I made a number of grafts, cleft ones in an attempt to "top work" an
> ancient boundary row apple on growth perhaps an inch in diameter, an inlay
> (?) graft on similar growth, and a number of whip-and-tongue ones on a
> lackluster red delicious in the back yard.  I had misplaced some acrylic
> sealer I bought, so used the heavy bottom gunk from  an old can of acrylic
> house paint to seal the grafts after taping them with some biodegradable
> grafting tape bought at the same time as the knife and the "Doc Farwell's
> Grafting Seal," which I found a week after doing all this.
>
> The base trees had broken dormancy and were starting to flower; scions had
> been kept in a plastic bag in the vegetable bin in the fridge and were
> still dormant; nice green cambium visible when I made the cuts; everything
> lined up, I hope correctly.  The success rate was, I think zero, though
> some scions had green under the bark into fall, so I didn't cut anything
> off, hoping they may "break" this spring.
>
> I know there's as much art as science in this; have I given enough
> information to go on?   I have Ed Fackler's book, which Dan Busey of Seed
> Savers swears is all anybody needs.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at www.albany.net/~gwoods
> Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G
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