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  • From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] successful bud grafts / temperature
  • Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:33:44 -0500

At 01:39 PM 8/24/2004 +0000, Del wrote:
&gtOne of the tips the accomplished grafters gave me when teaching me
&gt;to do greenwood budding of nut trees, in July/Aug, was to prune out
&gt;the terminal bud - I'm presuming to remove apical dominance and
&gt;re-institute sapflow/growth, as referenced above.

I am still trying to get all this in my head straight.....If one stops the auxins from flowing south - won't it also cause the bud graft to leaf out - instead of waiting for the next year? Or is it rather a matter of distance (or number of rootstock buds) from the apical bud to the graft?

I don't know.
Typically, there are at least a half-dozen (or more) buds between where I place my budgraft and the terminal bud. I usually don't force the bud until the next year on nut trees, because I'm usually later than I'd intended to be getting 'em put on there.
I do have some pears that I budded back in early July that I've forced, and they've put on 6-10 inches of growth, but will probably have ample time to harden off before winter.

Lucky





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