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g000n



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Posted: Sat 26 Mar, 2011 5:45 am

Does anyone have pictures or video of how to do micro-budding?
Thanks in advance.
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David.
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Posted: Sat 26 Mar, 2011 4:36 pm

All I know is that they do cleft grafts and that they are done in like really small size. I think they grow them for 3 weeks then graft them at that size.

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gdbanks
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Posted: Sun 27 Mar, 2011 1:14 am

it seems like i say pics read explanation were they use a microscope and cut out the branch bud, being very small and they they simply put that bud in a small cut of the root stock.

though i may not know what i am talking about Smile

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turtleman
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Posted: Sun 27 Mar, 2011 2:24 am

We do micro down to 5/32" but they have to be chip budded.. any other method has real poor rates because it's to small,, we've done some at 3/32 but it only strikes at 15 to 20%.. Allot of people I know in IPPS are doing the same thing.. (5/32 chips).
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Lemandarangequatelo
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Posted: Sun 27 Mar, 2011 8:24 am

Turtleman, thanks for the info. Could you post a tutorial on micrografting or give more info on how it's done please?
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turtleman
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Posted: Sun 27 Mar, 2011 4:57 pm

OY...
I seriously doubt that I could provide a video of something like that because I don't have a video cam.. let alone the time to write that up in a tutorial like JoeReal or Lazz has.. But it is a simple method, Follow the same practice as any chip budding technique but use much smaller material, and a display screen magnifier helps and a excato knife works well.
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Posted: Sun 27 Mar, 2011 5:13 pm

Lemandarangequatelo,
I've done some research but this is all I could come up with.
Terry
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Lemandarangequatelo
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Posted: Sun 27 Mar, 2011 7:33 pm

Turtleman, Terry, thank you very much for the info, much appreciated. I'll try normal grafting first later this year, then I'll have a go at micrografting too.
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pagnr
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Posted: Fri 08 Apr, 2011 6:49 pm

Microbudding, there are several different techniques.
"Tolley's microbudding" uses rather small angled budwood in otherwise normal budding operations, using standard budding techniques. It's a way of using the tricky thin budwood that is usually discarded.
"V Budding" is described here http://books.google.com.au/books?id=EX_kYBTu8ZsC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=v+budding&source=bl&ots=ofK97F-kOU&sig=NBKv3nwhtdYKFT0JY44afgw6o00&hl=en&ei=x22fTdaCJ8vXcerjhekB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=v%20budding&f=false

Micro T and Micro Chip are minature budding methods, basically scaled down versions of normal methods. They look pretty similar to V Budding above except that in Micro Chip you place the bud on the stock in a normal chip bud fashion,(between the stock buds). In Micro T budding you cut a tiny T bud, and make the normal T cuts on the stock. Inverted Micro T budding, ie making the T cut upside down seems easier to me, and also the stock must open up very easily to fit the bud.
In my experience the petiole should be removed.
Buddy Tape makes any micro work a lot easier, as tying in the bud is probably the hardest part.
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