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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

Very unlikely but I don;t know everything.

---- Original Message ----
From: skkewing@yahoo.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Grafting by the moon (totally on topic)
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:31:24 -0700 (PDT)

>
>Hi folks,
>
>I'm wondering if anyone out there grafts by the moon signs.  I read
>about grafts being more likely to take when done during a waxing moon
>(going towards a full moon) rather than a waning moon (going towards
>new moon).  My vast grafting experience ;) indicates that this does
>work although my work is rather statistically insignificant having
>been done in large numbers over only a few years.
>
>Sounds like a lot of Foxfire folklore at first, but if you consider
>that the moon has the ability to move the ocean into tides perhaps it
>stands to reason that it could also pull more sap up the rootstock
>resulting in a greater likelihood of a graft healing before drying
>out and therefore being successful.
>
>Thoughts???
>
>Sarah 
>zone 3
>Edmonton, AB
>
>
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