harveyc

I use Parafilm also, especially for my citrus, avocado, white sapote grafts. One of my favorite grafting tapes these days is masking tape. I buy mine at Ace Hardware, their own brand, for $.99 when on sale and have used it on about a couple thousand grafts for chestnuts but also some other temperate things. It sticks even better than Parafilm, has more strength, and tears when the union swells if you don't make too many wraps. I do use Doc Farwell's grafting sealer also, though. Buds are just pushing on chestnuts now, except for a few earlybirds, and I will wait another couple of weeks before doing another round of grafts (only about 200 this year as I'm about done with my expansion/conversion project).

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