FLEXIBAND 200 x 6 mm grafting strips

FLEXIBAND 200 x 6 mm rubber grafting strips are perfectly suited for cleft grafting on fruit trees, conifers, and ornamental trees. The highly elastic strip protects the graft well and prevents drying out. It ensures good support for the scion, offers perfect sealing, and does not hinder growth. It is an effective device, very easy and quick to use, to be removed after healing. Sold in a 1 kg bag containing 1260 strips.

Grafting is a propagation method commonly practised on fruit trees and roses, but also on horticultural plants that are difficult to propagate by cuttings or that grow poorly in our soils. It is sometimes used on annual plants like tomato or aubergine, to obtain stronger young plants.

Grafting involves fusing a twig or bud from the selected variety, called the scion, onto a rootstock, adapted to the soil, which will confer a certain vigour to the plant (low for a trained fruit tree, high for a standard tree) or which shows resistance to certain diseases, as is the case with American rootstocks resistant to Phylloxera in vines. Grafting also allows you to change the variety of a well-established tree while benefiting from its root system or rejuvenating a tree. It is a so-called "vegetative" propagation since it uses an organ (twig or bud) which must come from a healthy plant to avoid transmitting disease. It allows the genetic material of the scion to be reproduced.

There are several ways to graft, which vary according to the season, the species to be grafted, and the size of the rootstock. They also vary according to habits, the grafter's skills, the availability of scions... It is generally said that top-grafting allows modifying the grape variety of an established and productive vine.

Instructions for use:

When you perform your graft or top-graft, regardless of the method, once the thin cambium layers, located just under the bark of the scion and the rootstock, are juxtaposed, tie firmly with the grafting strip, to ensure total immobility of the two organs by wrapping it several times around and knotting the end. It is highly elastic, and it withstands bad weather well.