Actually for many young trees, no stripping is neccessary, simply surround
the trunks with tapes.
I have developed trees this way with trident and Japanese maples as well as
hornbeams.
Pauline

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Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:47 PM
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Subject: [IBC] Thickening Trunks Experiment


I was hoping someone else would take this up for you.

I think this is how it goes: You take a strip of bark off the trees
lengthwise. Put these sections to the inside and bind the trees together.
Eventually the trunks will fuse.

Kits

BlueHippo wrote:
What do you mean, graft, exactly? I've heard of grafting as a method
for getting difficult cuttings to grow on a related species, but I
haven't tried it before. Do you mean grafting two trunks together? I'm
not entirely sure how that will work.



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