Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Splice grafting, knifes & more.
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:33:38 +0000
For grafters with weak wrists, it may be difficult if not impossible to get
nice smooth faces on the cuts of scion & stock, on sticks of pencil size.
I have better success rates with wood half that diameter, because I can
slice clean & straight thru it, and then I get a better match of the cambiam
layers.
tc, s.WI, maple & cottonwood buds & a couple cold robins say "spring", but
not much else
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From: "del stubbs" >
To: nafex@
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Splice grafting, knifes & more.
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:30:22 +0000
Size is important. Pencil size or larger. Yes, smaller wood can also
callous,
but again why use smaller wood that reduces the chances of success
percentage? Jerry Lehman
I have occasionaly been faced with no choice but tiny scion wood, a cherry
plum for instance. Your interesting comment on callusing from top down makes
me wonder 'if the dessication problem in tiny scionwood could be solved by
dipping a 6" scion in hot parrifin? or wet rag? or?' then maybe one could
gain more stored energy by extra long length? . I have yet to solve how to
graft with 1/16" scionwood well. A lovely 0'F this am. Del