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[Lester Davis <lhdavis8@knology.net>]

I have had very few failures when bark-grafting or chip budding paw paws.  I 
always try to align the foreign buds in line and between two buds on the 
rootstock.   I  bark graft onto a limb 
  
if it is large enough to receive a scion.   Does everyone else use this 
procedure or do you random place buds on any smooth part of the rootstock?    
I have in ground small trees for rootstock 
  
that will try next spring  with buds misaligned to see it makes any 
difference. 
  
I use the same technique when budding and grafting chestnuts and shown in 
'85th Annual Report' of Northern Nut Growers Association  dated Aug 1994 with 
excellent results. 
  
Lester H. Davis 
Columbus, GA