Why I like grafting rubbers and parafilm

[marknmt]

@Rosdonald

Also, quite a few looked great, started branching, and then just stopped growing suddently, and turned dark. Ideas on what the main cause could be?

No ideas, but disease comes to mind. Anybody?

[Everett]

I had this happen to my smokehouse graft this year. Took and looked beautiful… A foot of growth and then blackened and died back completely. I believe it was a rootstock failure, as when I cut back the bark on the rootstock there was no sign of life.

This was a bench graft on antanovka

[Stan]

@Everett

A foot of growth and then blackened and died back completely. I believe it was a rootstock failure, as when I cut back the bark on the rootstock there was no sign of life.

Could be also fireblight.

[Stan]

@californicus

I like Stan’s idea of using the splicing tape on top of parafilm.

This is what I do but the idea is not mine, I read about using the splicing tape here on the forum. Since it was at least five years ago, I do not remember who was/were the original proponent(s).