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

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Grafting

If you are going to do budding, chip budding has one big advantage in that you can use it anytime the stock is active enough to heal the bud into place, even if the bark isn't slipping, the way it must be for t-budding.  This allows you to bud almost into fall, which is a big help if you have a lot of trees to bud.  Also, the wound from chip budding is less invasive and heals more readily with less oozing (depending on the species).  T-budding some Prunus will cause lots of gumming of the bud, while chip budding usually heals very cleanly.
-Lon Rombough

> My 2 cents worth.  Buy a grafting knife from Womacksnursery.com for $15 and a rol of grafting tape for $1.50.  Practice.  Find someone experienced and ask a lot of questions.  Try t-budding.