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- From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
- To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] persimmon grafting
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:45:52 -0600
At 12:04 PM 11/21/2005, Doc L wrote:
How about explaining your method of preventing "blow out"? Your method worked for me after you advised how to prevent it. It could be a problem for some persimmon grafter wannabes.Thanks,Doc,
You're right - some of these grafts will put on some very vigorous growth, and while a bark graft gives a lot of cambium contact on multiple surfaces, it's not very strong for the first year or two, so is subject to 'blowing out' when a stiff catches the leaves or when a bird lights(perches) on it.
Probably the simplest thing is to take a nice little bamboo stake and shove it down into the soil next to the rootstock stem - on the 'backside' of the stem, away from your graft, take a couple of wraps around stake & rootstock with masking tape just to secure the two together, then, as the scion pushes out growth, train it in an upright fashion by taping it to the bamboo stake - this will help promote upright growth - some of mine, that I didn't stake , have a pretty noticeable 'dog-leg' in them, as a result - as well as protecting against 'blow-out'.
Ideally, your stake should extend at least a couple of feet above the level of the graft - with a well-established rootstock plant, your graft may grow that much or more in the first year - but sometimes less.
I don't always get around to staking in a timely manner, and I've been pretty dismayed to walk out and find a nice vigorously-growing graft lying shriveled or crispy & blackened on the ground.
Lucky
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Re: [NAFEX] persimmon grafting,
Jwlehman, 11/18/2005
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Re: [NAFEX] persimmon grafting,
Doc Lisenby, 11/21/2005
- Re: [NAFEX] persimmon grafting, Lucky Pittman, 11/21/2005
- Re: [NAFEX] persimmon grafting, martha_davis, 11/21/2005
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