Famous gardener, Jerry Baker, recomended on a PBS show that you should
beat the trunks of your trees with a short length of rubber hose or a
rolled-up newspaper to stimulate sap flow and get better flowering and
fruiting. Sounds strange to me. Does this have any basis in fact?
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David R. Hershey
Snail mail: 6700 Belcrest Road #112, Hyattsville, MD 20782-1398
Adjunct Professor, Biology/Horticulture Department
Prince George's Community College, Largo, MD 20772-2199
Email: dh321 at pgstumail.pg.cc.md.us
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