Subject: Re: [NAFEX] successful bud grafts / temperature
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:39:19 +0000
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>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.
I am still trying to get all this in my head straight.....If one stops the
auxins from flowing south - won't it also cause the bud graft to leaf out -
instead of waiting for the next year? Or is it rather a matter of distance
(or number of rootstock buds) from the apical bud to the graft?, Del
Del Stubbs - ag zone2/3, where the weekends' frost toasted the squash, some
grape leaves, and sweet corn, but heard it snowed north in Canada
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