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Ginda, The purpose of the budding strips (or rubber bands) is to hold the parts snug together. When I first started budding I used string to make is snug and then put some compound over it. It is so much easier just to use the budding strips. As long as the cut parts are all covered up with the rubber that is all that is needed. Bob list@ginda.us wrote: Thanks, everyone, for the responses. I used a slightly different technique, following the pictures in "the Grafters Handbook" I left a long tag at the top of the bud as a handle, then cut it flush to the top of the "t" after placing the bud under the flap of bark. I also left a little bit of the leaf - should I cut that off? (The drawings in the book showed no leaf at all, but the stick I took had leaves.) |
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