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Re: [nafex] Dormant grafting



I also reset several whip grafts yesterday, some with the original scions if
they were still green and others with dormant scions from the fridge. I shaved
off the old cuts to expose new green tissue again. This is a real easy time to
mess up on labeling if you can't use the same variety. I caught myself twice.
vic NH zone 3

Gordon Nofs wrote:

> Ginda
>    It is not to late to do grafts yet. I did some yesterday, Bark, and whip,
> also splice of dormant wood to growing trees. I also will be continuing to
> graft the same plus greenwood for at least 2 more months yet. If you make a
> nick with a knife or fingernail into the scion and it is not green
> underneath it is gone.
>      Gordon C. Nofs   Flint  MI
> ***********************************************
>
> Some of my grafts
>  > >took, and some died.  Many of my late grafts seem to have done neither.
>  > >These were whip and tongue grafts done a bit too late.  Do you suppose
>  > >they might grow next year - like dormant buds?  Do you suppose the buds
>  > >are dead but the wood's still alive?> >Ginda
>  > >eastern Mass., zone 6
>
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