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[Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>]

Are you really stuck on cleft grafting?  As a rank beginner, I learned bud 
grafting in a class taught by Dr. Evans.  The lesson took 1-2 minutes (simple 
bud grafting sealing the graft with strips of parafilm) and the rest of the 
class time was a demo of other grafting types, discussion of grafting 
compatibility (eg. pears on saskatoon or hawthorne, apricots on plum) and the 
practical application of bud grafting with lots of grafted trees to take 
home.  The success rate for rank beginners was much closer to 95% which might 
make your students happier and more likely to keep interested and trying than 
a bunch of failed complicated grafts would.

Just a thought! ;o)

Sarah 
zone 3
Edmonton, AB


--- On Sun, 11/1/09, Gene Spears <Spears@LMC.edu> wrote:

> From: Gene Spears <Spears@LMC.edu>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grafting in a Botany Class
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Received: Sunday, November 1, 2009, 2:23 PM
> Ginda,
>     I was planning on apples, but am open to
> other suggestions.  I wondered about extra binding -
> most of my grafting experience has been the cleft variety on
> established trees, so keeping the graft in place wasn't much
> of an issue.
> 
> Gene
> 
> ________________________________________
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> On Behalf Of Ginda Fisher [list@ginda.us]
> Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:13 AM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grafting in a Botany Class
> 
> What species of plant do you want to graft?  Do you
> care?
> 
> In my experience, parafilm works great for sealing the
> graft, but is
> not sufficient for binding it in place.  I suggest you
> also use rubber
> bands or string or something.
> 
> best of luck,
> Ginda
> 
> On Nov 1, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Gene Spears wrote:
> 
> > Looking for some advice.   I'm teaching
> General Botany this semester
> > (a sophomore college class) and wanted to end with a
> lab on
> > grafting.  Last lab will be the end of November,
> so time may be too
> > late already.  I have about 23 students.  I
> can get parafilm and
> > exacto-type scapels within a few days, but could I get
> the
> > rootstocks and scion within that time frame? 
> (I'm in NC.)
> >
> > Was planning to have each student do two grafts so
> they could take
> > their grafts home and plant a couple of trees - two
> would ensure
> > pollination.  So say about 50 rootstocks and
> maybe twice that many
> > scion?
> >
> > Some questions?
> >
> > 1) Good sources with quick delivery?
> > 2) Two good varieties that would cross-pollinate and
> required little
> > care?
> > 3) About how much would it cost?
> >
> > Me teaching grafting is like a one-eyed man leading
> the blind, but
> > I'm hoping an indoor setting with sterile (somewhat)
> conditions and
> > bench-grafting (mine has always been out in the yard)
> would improve
> > my sorry success rate - and maybe the students will be
> better than I
> > am.
> >
> > Thanks for any advice!
> >
> > Gene Spears
> > Zone 6 - NW NC
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