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["Lucky.PIttman@murraystate.edu" <Lucky.PIttman@murraystate.edu>]

Frost not so much a concern, but several years back,
I got a really early start, and a late freeze
event(not as bad as this year's Easter Big Freeze
Disaster, though) killed off all new foliage on
pecans/walnuts - including a number of pecan grafts
that had already leafed out.

Lucky


------- Original Message -------
>From    : Alan Haigh[mailto:alandhaigh@gmail.com]
Sent    : 12/19/2007 5:33:44 PM
To      : nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Cc      : 
Subject : RE: [NAFEX] grafting and frost

 By NAFEX standards I don't consider myself a master
grafter by any means.
Last few years I've done a couple hundred grafts a
year, I guess and I'm
pretty much self-taught.  I always do my grafting of
pears and apples just
as the trees start to bud out in early April as I've
read to do.  Our last
day of likely frost is about May 6th so you can give
or take a week or two
on that.  I've never lost a graft to frost even
though they start to bud out
in two or three weeks after grafting as I remember.