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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 11:33 AM 2/11/2008, you wrote:
> Lucky
>    Please be careful in using the toilet ring gasket wax as a
> sealant. I thought it was so nice and awful easy to use so I put on
> 10 whip and tongue grafts 2 years ago. I had zero take and the bark
> above and below where the wax hit ended  turning black after a couple
> of days. Normally on W&T grafts one obtains close to 100 % take but
> something in the wax must be too powerful for the bark.  Maybe some
> other ring waxes are made of different material but test it on a
> tree  branch before you spend time grafting with it.  Ray

Thanks, Ray - this may be reason enough NOT to even try it - and 
thanks for bringing this to the attention of the entire list; I'd 
hate to be responsible for someone applying this stuff to a whole 
bunch of grafts and really making a mess of things.
Lucky