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- From: "Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Illustrating, "bark in the slip"
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:14:09 -0500
Betsy, Yes I have found that small twigs slip
first, then larger ones, and then larger. I don't know why, but I have
been fooled many a time as you were by checking a small twig first, then
standing there with my nice cut scion while I fumble with the bark on a cut
branch that won't slip. I wonder though, if we went away till the next
day, if the sap meant to go out to the cut off branch would have collected
enough to let the bark slip. Maybe we should try this out to allow bark
grafting a little earlier in the season. I have PLENTY of cicada damaged
branches on plum, apples and pears that will need to be cut off over the next
few years. Guess I could experiment. I was EXTREMELY irritated this
spring to find that plums in bloom and even leafing out were still not ready to
bark graft, and due to all the cicada damage I was having trouble finding twigs
small enough to do a simple splice graft on. My scionwood was a bit far
along when my source cut it, and I was in a hurry to use it. Now
we've had a good bit of rain and I look back and wonder if it was drought.
Donna
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Re: [NAFEX] Illustrating, "bark in the slip",
Jwlehman, 04/08/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Illustrating, "bark in the slip", Kieran &/or Donna, 04/10/2009
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