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I"m not sure what it's purpose was.  Or even if it was sand.  The "tape" may have been designed for some other use and was adapted to the rooting method by the seller.
-Lon Rombough
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On Feb 1, 2007, at 11:45 AM, rob hamilton wrote:

What is the is the course sand supposed to do?

Rob

"Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com> wrote:
> 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.
> For even more grape lessons, go to http://www.grapeschool.com
> For growing supplies and more; http://www.grapegrowersolutions.com
>
> 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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