Some old thread talking about it here…
I do see some people like have the dwarfing / some soil disease resistance / early bearing of some rootstocks. and some people seem to say in northern orchards afraid of tree dying back to its roots on a freeze like kaki, so want to risk planting it deep.
I wonder if planting too deep is 1, hard to do on heavy/stony soils, and 2. might be too wet the lower you go. As a compromise (if determined to get it on its own roots), I wonder if you can plant on a slant (almost planted horizontally/flat) then with the scion just barely sticking out of the soil and then just train it upwards that year (by going the green new growth up a small pole/stick). This is assuming the scion is already grafted last year to the rootstock as I assume getting it dirty/wet during the graft healing process isn’t good.
Whats the reason why people specifically say to plant above the ‘root flare’ specifically if someone knows?