Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
S'all in the minute particulars. Plant propagators rely upon an array of challenge-specific techniques. Here, late night practice of the 'Z-graft' to deepen my toolset prior to a wave of propagation fairs. A shy, slow learner, I'm always thankful when the muscle memory kicks in.
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Photograph of a desk, top-lit, littered with grafting tools, scion-scraps, and a pile of practice-grafts distinctively wedding different diameter wood.
Nick Routledge@AgrarianSharing · 7 Mar 2025
A few years ago, we began popularizing use of the Z-graft, a little-known cloning technique historically favored by tropical propagators. Transpires it radically enhances the relative ease, speed, flexibility and take-rate of temperate fruit-tree grafting. facebook.com/share/p/1ADGhbUQHn/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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