Well, it looks like my grafting exeriment with peaches is successful at stage one. Now I just need to see if there are any delayed compatability issues down the road.
I took two apricot rootstocks and used fairly long St Julian A interstems. On those I have an O Henry peach I budded last year and a June Pride I grafted this year.
Next up are two Myrobalan 29C that I transplanted this spring, then double grafted first with long St Julian A interstems, then after they showed signs of taking I put the peach scions on. Those are Baby Crawford and Kaweah.
Live and learn. I hope it works.
I’ll try and get pictures later. Right now we are all avoiding walking on the grass that has been planted out around the peach trees.
Interesting. What do you try to achieve by that interstem? Apricot should be compatible to peach, isn’t it? It surely is the other way around, apricot on peach roots. I have a Harlayne growing on Rubira which is a red leafed peach.
I was not at first aware that apricot and peach were compatible, and was not certain it would work.
My intent was to try and make a peach tree with a longer life span by using a longer lived root.
I have seen very old apricots, never very old peaches.
Another expected advantage is the trunk being less attractive to borers.
Now I’m invested. Lol I have four trees I hope will live and make fruit.
To ad to your list: Apricots are deep rooting trees. In normal years (not last year) we have lots of precipitation so I can’t tell from personal experience but apricots should be more drought tolerant than peach roots.
These are in an irrigated orchard. Still, deep rooted is good.
The myro is a shallow but vigorous root system. They grow like weeds here. If these peaches on myro roots don’t grow I’ll know there are other issues.