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["Bassem Samaan" <bassem@gardener.com>]

I diffenitly agree that grafting pawpaw is easily done. I had great success with grafting pawpaws, I was able to graft into a 1 year old rootstock with no problem. I was planning to give away 2 trees to a family member who have limited space, and they have no idea what grafting is.

I'm also wondering if grafting pawpaws on Dwarf pawpaw rootstock, will bring the pawpaw to bear earlier, and will limit the size of the tree. Have anyone tried Dwarf Pawpaw as a rootstock?

 

Can't wait for Pawpaw season, I'll be going on a pawpaw tour here in Pa towards the end of september. I hope they'll be ripe by then.

 

Bass,

Zone 6, Eastern Pa

 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Moyer"
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] grafting skill for pawpaw vs. two trees in a hole
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 00:11:15 -0400

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

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