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  • From: "Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] permanent tree labels
  • Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 23:19:35 -0500

I cut up aluminum cans, folded the ends of the strips and punched a hold through with a nail.  Some of the labels I put on citrus trees at my folks house are still there and readable about 14 years later.  I'm wanting permanent labels for a lot of pear grafts I plan to do, a lot of topgrafting to speed fruiting.  I thought I'd do the tin can thing but rather than wire them to the tree I'd tie them on with hemp string.  I'd run wire through the hole in the metal, then string through the wire loop.  How long will hemp string last outside in the hot humid weather? 
    I never thought about it, but some of these topgrafts I plan to make, I could just scratch the name in the bark below the graft.  Might be readable for years to come.   Hard to change the "label" though if I change the graft again.  Donna



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