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  • From: alexis@conev.org
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Grafting Tools
  • Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:01:41 -0400

The Omega style grafting tools are a poor choice, at any price. The knife bruises the tissue of the plant so badly that it make it much less likely that the graft will take.
The Topgrafter is a much better tool, but costs about $430. Even it is inferior to a knife. If you are grafting a lot of plants, or hardwood plants like jujubes, the grafting tool might make sense. For the ordinary person, a knife is better.
I teach propagation classes and at this point I simply give each student a utility knife. It works pretty well, and is cheap. My preferred graft is the saddle graft, and the utility knife is well suited to that. It works fine for whip and tongue etc.
I have a topgrafter because I do a lot of outdoor grafting, and the speed is helpful.
For small materials or when I want to make sure the graft takes, I use schick injector blades, crazy sharp little blades, They make a great saddle graft even on tiny material, but that kind of grafting is slow. Very effective, but slow.
alexis




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