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["Richard Moyer" <ramoyer@gmail.com>]

Bass,

Am writing from the NAFEX meeting in Lexington.

Another NAFEXer here confirmed today that pawpaw is about the easiest thing we graft.  It's a great wood to try on, to learn on.  Very supple wood is forgiving, and therefore pretty easy to get a good cambium match.

 

If concerned about two trees being a crowd, I'd suggest this is a good time to convert that concern in to the millenia-old skill of grafting.

 

Lee Reich notes that his hort professor taught that "any fool can graft", so that encouraged me to plunge in, give it a try, and be willing to learn from my failures.

 

Richard Moyer