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[rob hamilton <lostman_amiga@yahoo.com>]

What is the is the course sand supposed to do?

Rob

"Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com> wrote:
>  Years ago there was product sold that looked like very heavy black 
> rubber tape with grains of coarse sand on the outside.  You were 
> supposed to remove a ring of bark from a shoot and wrap the girdled 
> area with the tape.  After a few months there was a large callus under 
> the tape and you cut off the shoot just below that and planted it.  The 
> callus would produce roots very quickly and grow.  I had some and used 
> it on a number of plants, some of which are still growing here after 
> nearly 40 years.  However, none of what I used the tape on was 
> especially hard to root from cuttings, so I don't know if it was really 
> effective or not.
> The actual method you are describing sounds like a modification of
>  air 
> layering.  Air layering was a method used before grafting was common to 
> reproduce favorite apple and pear trees, and it certainly would work on 
> quince.  In those times a clay pot was used.  A shoot was fed through 
> the drainage hole and cut or partly girdled, then the pot was filled 
> with soil.  The wound made callus and rooted more readily so that by 
> the end of the season the shoot was rooted and could be cut loose as a 
> small potted tree.
> -Lon Rombough
> Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at 
> http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association 
> "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
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>
> On Feb 1, 2007, at 6:58 AM, rmelrose@danvilleVT.net wrote:
>
> I have a `have you ever tried' question. Somewhere, unfortunately I do 
> not
> remember where, I read
>  about a modified layering technique. Basically 
> the
> claim was that if one wraps a small branch (I think preferably low 
> down) on
> a woody plant in foil for a season it (so light is excluded but so that 
> it
> does grow out of the tip) it tends to revert to a juvenile state and can
> then be rooted much more readily than a straight Fall hardwood cutting. 
> This
> certainly has a name which I have also forgotten.
>
> As I say, has anyone actually tried this as a way to produce own-rooted
> trees? I was thinking of trying it on quinces -- as an alternative to
> grafting them.
>
> Richard
>
>
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