To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grafting Black Walnuts
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 06:07:48 -0500
> Do you cut 3/4 way through on the side you're going to put the graft on,
> or the opposite side, or does it matter?
Yes. I cut 3/4 of the way through the rootstock and break it over so that
the tiop is now 'hanging' at a 90 degree angle(sometimes as much as 135
degrees)off the 'back side' of the stem, then I do my bark graft on the side
facing me.