To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] successful bud grafts / temperature
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:54:43 -0500
At 08:47 PM 8/20/2004 -0700, you wrote:
Stefan,
If the terminal bud has formed, it means that the sap flow has stopped.
In order to get callusing of the bud in its new site, you want actively
growing
stock.
One of the tips the accomplished grafters gave me when teaching me to do
greenwood budding of nut trees, in July/Aug, was to prune out the terminal
bud - I'm presuming to remove apical dominance and re-institute
sapflow/growth, as referenced above.