For a while till the healing over the wire is done.
Gordon C. Nofs
Flint, MI.
From: Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: [NAFEX] dwarfing scarring" Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:07:22 -0400
Hello All,
Is it possible to dwarf a tree using scar tissue?
I only ask, as last season I had a spare apple rootstock and decided I would try to bonsai it. I wrapped a piece of plastic coated, copper wire around the whip from the ground up. I then promptly forgot about it.
Now the wire created a wound that spirales up the tree, and the bark is healing over it. Every spiral of the wire creates a scar that makes nutrient flow more difficult.
Will this work as a dwarfing technique?
Just curious.
Later, Tom -- Thomas Olenio Ontario, Canada Hardiness Zone 5b
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