[conspire] Happy news

[paulz at ieee.org]

 Rick,
Presumably you have confirmation of your budwood order by now, but their work may also be slowed by Covid-19
You will want some parafilm to seal your grafts.  A link is below.  There are many sellers of similar stuff.  Most grafters use 1" (25 mm) wide tape, but today I only saw 4".
It will take a bit of practice to figure out how to stretch it without breaking.
Also, most grafters use strips of rubber bands to hold things together.  I still don't have the hang of that.  As I said in previous email, I use Scotch 33 electrical tape.  For deciduous trees during the dormant season, and cool weather, that is all.  For citrus, seal with parafilm and then make a shade out of aluminum foil.

Good luck


https://www.ebay.com/itm/Parafilm-M-Laboratoryf-Film-PHOTOS-OF-USE-HERE-4-x-10-Nursery-Tape-Grafting-4b5/153912451359?hash=item23d5e5a11f:g:zUUAAOSwTs9eOG0f
    On Friday, May 1, 2020, 12:58:11 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:  
 
 Quoting Paul Zander (paulz at ieee.org):

> The conversation caused me to pay attention to my tree.  It had one
> fruit last year and one earlier this year.  Over the course of the
> last year, I selectively thinned out the lemon which was shading its
> small neighbor.  Now the calamondin has a fair number of blossoms and
> many new shoots.  

Glad to hear it.

> I hope Rick's trees are happy.


As to my troubled calamansi / calamondin, after the graft stock
recovered for a while, dammit, the graft died completely, so what
remains is healthy non-calamondin rootstock.  I've just now ordered six
calamondin budstock cuttings from Citrus Clonal Protection Program at UC
Riverside (your kind recommendation) -- just in time for the May 5th
cutting and shipment.


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