My guess is that Prunica was a typo for the word Prunus. Most likely Prunus roots with Z-Stem interstem from Zaiger Genetics.
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The fruits of Adara aren’t bad. Similar in size and shape to Myrobalans. The seed is tiny.
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Would Adara work ON peach as the rootstock? Say I want to graft sweet cherry to peach and use Adara as an interstem.
I have a lousy peach that would be a good candidate for topworking also. I’d speculate that your odds are fairly good if you avoid the few cultivars that are known to be incompatible. As a general rule per the historical literature, plums are graft compatible to peach rootstock.
Two Lapins cherries that I grafted to Adara interstems this year are growing quite well. I’m having good success growing out Adara so I plan to add many more cherry cultivars next year.
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With fall upon us now I am happy to report that the results for my experiments with Adara this year have been good. The Adara grafted on almond put on 6’-6" vertical growth measured from the top of the scion. The spread of the tree grew to six feet.
Regarding the tiny double grafted tree in the first photo of this thread, I planted it out in late spring. It grew to be exactly 5’-0" tall. Caliper is about 3/4" diameter at the plum trunk area and over 1" at the Lapins graft. Photos:
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Dan,
Any chance I can buy some of the Puente scion woods from you? I have a few plum and peach trees that I want to convert over to Cherries. Please let me know. I am in San Diego Area.
@brittanyw @Vohd @Dennis1 In case you still have interest, I have some sticks of Adara to share. Please send me a PM with contact info and how many sticks you need.
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This is neat!
If you have a few extra I have some myro rootstocks and I need more sweet cherries. I would love to try this, and perhaps try to stool it for more future rootstocks. We are quite alkaline here so it sounds like it would be a good way to go.
I don’t think this website allow me to PM, yet. As I am still a new user. I can not find a the pm function on this website. This is my throwaway email account that you can contact me and I can provide my mailing address. Anhdinh@yahoo.com
I’m interested.
All those who have interest in scions please send me a private message with all of your contact info and how many pieces that you need. Last year my cost was running about five to seven dollars per package which can be reimbursed through PayPal. I have enough scions for a few more people.
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@danchappell I live in San Jose and would love to buy some (2 or 3) of your Adara scions to graft this Spring.
I just came here from a Google search and don’t have permission to PM other users yet. Could you please send me a PM?
Can Adara be used as interstem to convert Cherry to plum? I have a couple of mature cherry trees (White Gold and Lapins) that I wish to convert to European Plum varieties.
I thought Joe used some kind of cherry rootstock for his 150:1 multi grafted plum varieties.
Tony
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It can be used like that but it is incompatible with some cherries, and some plums.
Not much info, the most info i found so far is here. It does list some cultivars it is compatible with or not compatible.
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If I recall correctly Joe used an existing street tree that came with the house that he bought. It is an ornamental purple leaf plum commonly used for landscaping in California urban areas. Although these trees are usually prunus cerasifera they are also frequently referred to as cherry plum due to the fact that the size and color of the drupe often resembles the appearance of a sweet cherry.
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Most of the literature talks about converting Plum to Cherry. I am wondering if it is possible to go the other way. Plums do way better here than Cherry and I can buy excellent cherries at the store while it is nearly impossible to get high quality plums other than growing them.
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Give it a shot and let us know either way!
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The article I linked showed the wood was compatible with many plums, and even peaches, but it seemed hit and miss with peaches. I got some wood from Dan and I’m going to put a couple pieces on cherry as a source to harvest more in the future. But I want it to put Euro plum on Asian plum trees. So I will graft some pieces on Asian plum. If they don’t take I have the cherry grafts to try other trees. I will eventually try all my peach and plum trees and see if I can get takes. Any takes I will graft Euro plums there. I would like to grow some gages and French desert plums.
I see it i compatible with Santa Rosa So I will put a piece on that tree to make sure I have a take somewhere!
If it can go one way it can go the other way too. It’s either compatible or it’s not. Doesn’t really matter which way you’re going. Not all plums or even all cherries are compatible. So one must experiment and find which trees will work. I have White Gold and they did not test that tree, so it could be incompatible with Adara. I want to use the cherry as a host for Adara to harvest more Adara in the future. I have multiple other cherries on it, so no plans to convert the tree.