Cider Digest #1558

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Subject: Cider Digest #1558, 6 April 2010 
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Cider Digest #1558                                         6 April 2010 

                 Cider and Perry Discussion Forum 

Contents: 
  grafting tool query (Dick Dunn) 

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Subject: grafting tool query 
From: Dick Dunn <rcd@talisman.com> 
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:22:22 -0600 

Has anybody used a tool like this: 
  http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.aspx?c=2&p=64798&cat=52&ap=1 
for grafting apples? 
(It is a punch-like tool which makes an "omega-shaped" tongue in one 
piece and notch in the other, so that they lock together.) 

I've seen that sort of graft used for grapes but didn't know if it 
might work for apples. 

If so:  How well does it work with slight mismatches in size of 
scion/rootstock? 

I'm having progressively more trouble each year doing the cuts for 
whip/tongue grafts...so even if the tool did only a passable job, 
it might be better than my poorly-shaped hand work. 
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Dick Dunn          rcd@talisman.com          Hygiene, Colorado  USA 

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