>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?
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