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["Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>]

   I've got a Zestar columnar apple (most of its branches grow straight 
up).Typically, 80% of my grafts take.  I keep trying to graft something else 
on it but zero of them take.  When I try budding, the introduced bark takes 
but the buds die.  Is this normal with either a Zestar or a columnar apple?

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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