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[Louis Pittman <lpittman@murraystate.edu>]

Jerry,
My experience has been similar to mIEKAL's - container-grown pawpaws that I
grafted and transplanted a year or so later, often grew for a year or two,
then the graft 'woke up dead' after winter, and the understock re-grew.
Now... in-groung established seedlings that were topworked to named
selections... no decline or death of the grafted variety.

But, again, it may be that if I did more than chunk 'em in the ground and
walk away, they might have fared better.

Lucky

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Jerry Lehman <jwlehmantree@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 8/19/2015 8:01 AM, mIEKAL aND wrote:
>
>> I have yet to have a grafted pawpaw, event ones that were 2-3 years old
>> in containers, make it thru a winter here in Wisconsin.  I do not have that
>> issue with seedlings.  My whole pawpaw planting are from several rounds of
>> seeds from John Gordon.  I sure wish I would have collected more of his
>> offerings 10-15 years ago.
>>
>> ~miEKAL
>>
> Miekal,
>
> Interesting!
>
> Did the understock live and only the graft die? Was it the 1st winter
> after grafting or did they survive a few winters then die?
>
> All of my grafted pawpaws were grafted onto seedlings in the ground and
> I've not had that problem. I do now avoid using the bark graft as they
> don't heal over well and maintains an open wound. I much prefer the whip
> and tongue graft or splice graft or saddle graft (pencil size) which
> normally heals over the 1st year.
>
> Jerry
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