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[Peter Chrisbacher <pxbacher@gmail.com>]

FYI: a site with John Brittain's article:
http://php.eos.net/jim/ArticleDB/Articles/NNGA/77th/77.TOC.html


Pete Chrisbacher
Kennett Square, PA


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Peter Chrisbacher <pxbacher@gmail.com>wrote:

> I recall seeing a fairly scientific write-up where the authors used PVC
> pipe with notches cut out of it for callusing bench grafts - I believe it
> was in one of the NNGA annual reports.
>
> John Brittain heats his bench grafted pecans at 80 degrees to callus them
> - if I recall correctly he uses old freezers for this purpose.  There was a
> write-up in the NNGA 77th annual report describing his process for pecans
> that I have the text of - email me if you can't find it online.
>
> Woop! First line of John's article is: "The basic technique for bench
> grafting nut trees has been described by Leslie Wilmoth in the 64th and
> 68th Annual Report of NNGA" so those are the NNGA reports/articles you'll
> want copies of :)
>
> Pete Chrisbacher
> Kennett Square PA
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