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I wonder if the paint might have crept between the scion and the stock? 
  I would seal the graft with something that will stay where you put 
it.  Either a film (I've had decent success with strips of thin plastic 
bag from the supermarket) or something thick and gunky, like wax or 
grafting compound.

Ginda

On Jan 24, 2004, at 3:09 PM, Gary Woods wrote:

> 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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