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One of Mid-Michigan's fruit/nut growers grafts filberts commercially. It is
not
easy to get takes. Sid is a nice guy but Sid does not talk much.
What he does say:
-Filberts are very fussy about callousing temperature. He built a building to
callous filbert grafts in. He keeps the temp very close to 80 F. He places
the
grafted rootstock in a large pot and callouses the whole shebang in his
building.
He does not worry if it pushes leaves because he has little shock since he
leaves
it in the pot.
-He often use a simple splice graft. That may be due to the large diameters
he
sometimes works with.....it might be due to the tendency for the top part of
the
rootstock to slough-off....as noted by Gordon
-He leaves a "nurse bud" at the top of the rootstock, also pointed out by
Gordon.
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