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[Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu>]

I tried one last year, did a chip bud in June from a this-years shoot I saw a 
dormant bud on by the base of a leaf already.  I forced it in two weeks by 
cutting most of the top of the stock and bending over; the graft proceeded to 
put on about 3' of new growth last year.  I didn't remove the bent-over shoot 
until the plant was dormant, it wasn't growing much after I bent it over.  
Overall I was pretty impressed, it did a lot better than I had expected.

Scott

On May 8, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Jwlehman@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 5/7/2011 2:12:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> topgun@otelco.net writes:
> 
>> Has anyone tried to summer graft persimmons with current season's wood 
>> like we do for apples, pears, peach,and plum using this year's wood?
>> 
>> THX NAFEXERS
>> 
>> R. D. O'Barr
>> "Topgun"
> 
> Yes, I have done it, it works. Don't expect much growth until the following 
> year. My attempts of late summer budding of buds from current years growth 
> failed. 
> 
> Jerry
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