To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] pawpaw grafting
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:34:49 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
I use two turns of masking tape, covered by stretched parafilm, and wind the
parafilm up the scion. The tape and parafilm fall apart by the time growth
at the graft swells the stem
>Mauch wrote;
>Unlike
>any other tree I've grafted, pawpaw will not stretch or swell underneath
>grafting
>material. So often above and below the graft will be twice as thick as
>the graft
>area (thus the reason for the stiffener). Once you carefully cut off the
>grafting
>material, the graft will swell to the same size as the rest of the growth.
> In a year
>or two, it becomes almost impossible to tell where the graft was made.
>