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[Karen Tillou <arboretum@homeorchardsociety.org>]

i use strips of old tractor inner tube to wrap and secure the grafts, then coat all the wounds (the scion tips, the cut face and split sides of the rootstock)with either grafting wax or doc farwells yellow latex.  i've used plumber's putty in a pinch to pack around the wounds too, and that was a good success.

the inner tube has to be removed after a couple months as it will girdle or even just be so tight that sap doesn't flow well into the scions.  i like it though since it's cheap, strong, and really stretchy.  and you can cut it to the size you need.

i should say though, i've moved away from doing cleft grafts on big trunks, and been happier doing 3-4 rind/bark grafts around the trunk perimeter that don't involve a big wound into the wood of the rootstock.

k

karen tillou

oregon city, OR - zone 8a and wet

On Feb 11, 2008, at 4:54 AM, rob hamilton wrote:

How about for cleft grafting on arm sized trunks?
What do you all use?

Robert

"Lucky.PIttman@murraystate.edu" <Lucky.PIttman@murraystate.edu> wrote:

Karen wrote:
i've never used parafilm for grafting this time of
year - in the NW
it seems to really help to seal all the wounded
surfaces of a new
graft with something that really keeps the rain out
and the tree/
scion's moisture in. would parafilm really cover well
enough on a
cleft graft or topworked tree, or does it only work
on whip and
tongue style unions (smooth ones with out weird
lumps...)?

OK, confession time for me, too. I'll admit,
Parafilm doesn't work all that well when sticking on
cleft grafts of relatively small scionwood - as you
might do when reworking an older apple with
relatively large-diameter branches. But, it works
great for bark grafts with scions considerably
smaller than the stock, 4- & 3-flap 'banana'-type
grafts, simple splice & whip & tongue type grafts,
and even cleft grafts where the rootstock is not more
than an inch or two in diameter,.

Lucky


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