<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I often pinch the growing tips on the nurse limbs to encourage vigor in the graft - lots of hormonal things going on with growing tips - if the nurse limb is threatening to overwhelm the graft I’ll remove some or all of it - <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">D</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 6, 2018, at 1:43 PM, Jon Clements <<a href="mailto:jmcextman@gmail.com" class="">jmcextman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Anybody have an opinion (or expertise?) on when is the best time to remove nurse (limbs) on top-worked trees? Obviously want to push the grafts, so do the nurse limbs take away energy? I guess I want to say they should/could be removed during the upcoming dormant season, but what about cutting them off now? Most of the grafts have grown one to two feet by now now...<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jon<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">JMCEXTMAN (aka Jon Clements)<br class="">413.478.7219 Verizon</div><div class="">413.378.3068 Project Fi</div><div class="">UMass Cold Spring Orchard</div><div class="">393 Sabin Street</div><div class="">Belchertown, MA 01007</div><div class=""><a href="http://umassfruit.com/" target="_blank" class="">http://umassfruit.com</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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