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In a message dated 4/3/2008 6:09:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, hartmansfruit@msn.com writes:

> I know people who have taken 2 and 3 year old rootstock, planting it next to the tree that needed treatment and then grafting that to the part of the tree above the girdling and thereby saved the tree.  The newly grafted rootstock saved the upper part of the tree.
>   
> Bob


I believe that is called "approach" grafting. 

A commercial peach orchardist that I visited saved several trees one year by using inarch grafting. It saved the tree and they cropped, but never healed over, the grafts and had open surfaces at the base. He said he wouldn't do it again, rather just replace the trees.  

Jerry


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