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[Alexander Dragotin <a_dragotin@yahoo.de>]

Thank you Alan.
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Re: [NAFEX] storing scion wood frozen

Mittwoch, 13. Februar, 2008

I have said:
"I am freezing everything. The budwood from some species have to be taken very early. Hazelnut is one of them. Using chip budding or whip and tongue graft I am bringing hazelnut on Turkish hazel rootstock.
Sometimes there is need to cut and store the budwood before winter could spell makes the buds unusable.
If the species in your zone isn't at winter could injury risk, you could in the early springtime cut the budwood and put it on the rootstocks.
There is no problem dealing with the pome. In the drupes case having early buds swelling you could take the lower part of the last year sprout. Under the swelling buds are some dormant ones and they can be used. Sometimes I have used two-year-old cuts (almond) and grafted them whip and tongue.
Sometime the year- or two-year-old scions near the swelling buds have sleeping reserve buds. I delete the swelled and use the rest. It works even dealing with the Hazelnut.
All this is only help in some situations of the hobby gardening.
If professional work should be done, early cut and stored frozen should be preferred."
Anyway some other have different idea how the scion wood have to be stored. It may works to.
Alex

--- Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com> schrieb am Sa, 14.3.2009:

Von: Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
Betreff: [NAFEX] frozen scion wood
An: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Datum: Samstag, 14. März 2009, 16:46

Alex writes "I shouldn't intervene in other's talk, but I would tell my experience. I am
freesing my budwood since more than 15 years. I wrap the wood in moist paper
(usually newspaper), put it in a plastick bag and friese it at ca. 25 Degree
F/-4 Degree C."

 

Alex, please feel free to inject your experience.  It is only by sharing our experiences that we can sort out hearsay from fact if we lack data.  Your experience suggests that well rapped scion wood will not dry out when frozen which will be very useful to anyone considering throwing away bud wood that's been frozen.    Now maybe the gentleman who was considering  disposing of his wood will be able to put it to use. You've also satisfied my general curiosity and I await Lon's answer to this input.

 

Thank you.

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