Yes, this "Good Friday phenomenon" is based on empirical research by
Maria Thun. She has stated that it is her experience that germination
starts fail on Good Friday (and the hours thereabouts). She also states
she has not correlated it to a celestial event (or a religion). At
least that was the story last I read her discussion of it - she writes
mainly in German, so I can only get what is translated into English.
I have found for myself that it really is better to avoid planting on
that date. My guess is that grafting is similar to planting - it is a
start of something you need to have new growth for, right? So I
extrapolated to grafting. Usually by that time it is too late for pome
field grafts and too early for stone fruits for me anyway, so I just
don't plant the garden that day.
Barbara R
Virginia Z7
Subject:
[NAFEX] Grafting on Good Friday
From:
Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
Date:
Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:01:22 -0400
To:
nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
There is ridicule and there is kidding. If ridicule was the motive
sound advice and experience wouldn't be included. Extreme civility is
sooooo boring.
I was wondering if Good Friday grafts fail if you're Muslim or Jewish?
I assume you have an empirical study on the subject. OK, maybe that is
ridicule, but sometimes there's a place for that.
[NAFEX] Grafting on Good Friday - Not,
Rosholdt, 04/04/2009