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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Rick,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Presumably you have confirmation of your budwood order by now, but their work may also be slowed by Covid-19</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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".</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">It will take a bit of practice to figure out how to stretch it without breaking.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Good luck<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Parafilm-M-Laboratory-Film-PHOTOS-OF-USE-HERE-4-x-10-Nursery-Tape-Grafting-4b5/153912451359?hash=item23d5e5a11f:g:zUUAAOSwTs9eOG0f" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">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</a></div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, May 1, 2020, 12:58:11 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Quoting Paul Zander (<a shape="rect" href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a>):<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> The conversation caused me to pay attention to my tree. It had one<br clear="none">> fruit last year and one earlier this year. Over the course of the<br clear="none">> last year, I selectively thinned out the lemon which was shading its<br clear="none">> small neighbor. Now the calamondin has a fair number of blossoms and<br clear="none">> many new shoots. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Glad to hear it.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I hope Rick's trees are happy.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">As to my troubled calamansi / calamondin, after the graft stock<br clear="none">recovered for a while, dammit, the graft died completely, so what<br clear="none">remains is healthy non-calamondin rootstock. I've just now ordered six<br clear="none">calamondin budstock cuttings from Citrus Clonal Protection Program at UC<br clear="none">Riverside (your kind recommendation) -- just in time for the May 5th<br clear="none">cutting and shipment.<div class="ydp75833cc8yqt8504410964" id="ydp75833cc8yqtfd13356"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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