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I use two turns of masking tape, covered by stretched parafilm, and wind the 
parafilm up the scion.  The tape and parafilm fall apart by the time growth 
at the graft swells the stem

>Mauch wrote;  
>Unlike 
>any other tree I've grafted, pawpaw will not stretch or swell underneath  
>grafting 
>material.  So often above and below the graft will be twice as thick  as 
>the graft 
>area (thus the reason for the stiffener).  Once you carefully cut off  the 
>grafting 
>material, the graft will swell to the same size as the rest of the  growth. 
> In a year 
>or two, it becomes almost impossible to tell where the graft was  made.
> 


Jim Nottke
Zone 7
Pfafftown, North Carolina