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  • From: Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] dwarfing scarring"
  • Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:07:22 -0400

Hello All,

Is it possible to dwarf a tree using scar tissue?

I only ask, as last season I had a spare apple rootstock and decided I would
try to bonsai it. I wrapped a piece of plastic coated, copper wire around
the whip from the ground up. I then promptly forgot about it.

Now the wire created a wound that spirales up the tree, and the bark is
healing over it. Every spiral of the wire creates a scar that makes nutrient
flow more difficult.

Will this work as a dwarfing technique?

Just curious.

Later,
Tom
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Thomas Olenio
Ontario, Canada
Hardiness Zone 5b






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