Any of you all with lots of 210 experience, did you dormant bench graft, top work, or bud?
Looks to be an old dead thread, but it popped up when i was reinvestigating G210. Looks like it has good winter hardiness!? Tree Fruit: Apple Cold Hardiness Research Update – CCE Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture Program
I’m Finally ready to get a small orchard established but I’ve been rethinking everything that I’ve done and want to do. With the grafting hobby/experiments I’ve made an absolute hodgepodge of stuff and I’m hesitant to put that out in rows. Sparing my thoughts on that new hardiness zone map I think winter hardiness needs high priority. I think that Cornell research is pretty on point with what I’ve seen die after three winters getting down in the -30’s (and beyond). No Goldrush here, but I still have a Dabinett.
I bought a tree on G210, heavy clay in a frost pocket and the rootstock survived but Splendour is a z5… it died.
I’m thinking about M111, B118, or G210. Not interested in a 50% success rate but still deliberating because of dwarfing and fireblight resistance.