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  • From: "Mark Lee" <markl@nytec.com>
  • To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [NAFEX] wax, and grafting.
  • Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:47:01 -0800

Gordon,

Thanks for discussing your experience with grafting late in the season.  I was wondering what would happen when dormant scionwood is grafted onto a tree that is approaching dormancy.  Did you observe any growth in the scionwood before the tree went dormant?  What month was this?

 

I haven’t had any formal training in the science of grafting.  Can somebody who has explain the science behind grafting late in the season.  I am assuming that dormant scionwood has stored some plant hormone (or absence of some) that causes the graft to heal and the scionwood to grow even when the rootstock has long since broken dormancy and is essentially done growing for the season.

 

-Mark Lee, Seattle

 

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Nofs
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 8:14 AM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] wax, and grafting.

 

I had a seedling Dwarf Apple tree Rootstock about 7 foot tall . And it was near the end of the season and I had a lot of apple scion varieties left. I grafted all the branches (27) splice grafts. I painted the graft and all the scion with Doc Farwell's grafting paint (yellow) Every one of those grafts took. The next spring I gave it to a daughter.

Last spring I also was wondering about the talk that was going on at the time about how long should a scion be. I grafted 2 apple grafts one 13 inches long, the other 23 inches long. I just used a grafting rubber to hold the graft. Both grew to the tip, and look good this spring.




Gordon C. Nofs

Flint, MI.



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