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Will 5 days of warm temps during shipping break Scion dormancy?

 
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Hello,

Will five days of shipping break Scion dormancy?

I'm getting my scions late this year,  and I was wondering if anyone would have an idea of how the warm temperatures during shipping affect scion dormancy?  The Scions have been in refrigeration at the company that I bought them from in Tennessee for several months, but they will be in transit for at least five days according to the post office tracking number.  I have no idea of what the temperature during shipping will be, but I assume that the scions will probably experience some high temperatures above 60 degrees until they get here.  Will this be enough to break dormancy?

I plan to get them in the refrigerator as soon as they're delivered.  

I'm not sure why I ordered so many scions.  I already have too many local ones collected and I almost don't have enough trees to graft them on.  This seems like a perpetual problem that I make for myself every year.  I think that I might have to graft onto my grafts from previous years to have enough room.

Thank you for any replies.
I appreciate any thoughts or advice that you can give.
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Tim
 
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Hi Tim,
I would also like to the know the answer to this question.

I have ordered a few bare root trees that took 3 or 4 days to get to me, and they had woken up... but they were shipped later with the intention of being planted shortly thereafter. I'm not sure how scion wood would do.
 
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I am pretty sure they will be okay, unless it'll be in like the 60's for the whole shipping time. I've never had a scion leaf out except on the tree, although I've read of it happening...
 
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