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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

I got so many replies to this, I have to say enough & many thanks.

Some related off-list discussion was about using parafilm to wrap damaged 
trunks,
for example, if you had some mouse- or rabbit-girdling but perhaps not all 
the way
through all the cambium.  Wrapping w/ parafilm should help prevent the 
remaining
cambium from drying out & dying.  Yes, no?  Can others describe their 
attempts at
this?


--- tanis grif <> wrote:

> Are there different kinds of parafilm, or does the M stuff lose its flex 
> after a
> few
> years?  In the past, hort friends have given me parafilm to try, saying it 
> is THE
> ticket for budding & grafting, but and each time the parafilm was more like 
> a
> tough
> wax than a stretchy rubber.  
> 
> Would anyone consider sending me a small sample of the parafilm which has 
> been
> discussed recently, enough to try a few grafts?  
> 
> A couple reasons why I like the rubber splicing tape is because I can 
> always find
> it, in at least one hardware store, and $2-3 is 80-90 grafts.  Never seen 
> parafilm
> on any store shelf, and it sounds like even the smaller amounts available 
> is for a
> lot of grafts!
> 
> 




 
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