It is likely a plum/apricot/peach rootstock. Also called VVA-1.
They probably used an adara interstem for the cherry’s.
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That was their reply as well. They get them from a supplier so they could not answer directly.
There is a base graft and the 5 varieties were all bud grafts.
Ok that makes sense and makes me feel better. I might allow an Adara shoot develop from the interstem to use later if one pushes.
reposting a question here
I have two sand cherry bushes (prunus besseyi). I only see reference to putting plum on them here.
can I graft cherry to them- sweet, sour, Rainier? any kind of cherry that will be compatible that tastes better than this.
I’ve got a few cherry scions that need to go somewhere (I’ve got apricot, peach, nectarine and plum they can be tried on if the sand cherries won’t take them)
I have too many plums already, so I’d rather not do more of those.
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besseyi I am trying white gold grafts. I do not have high hopes but they HAVE broken bud so far. I wonder if they’ll take then fall in a year or two (would be fine with me)
I had 3 sticks left over so on they went, for Science
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they look to have taken. will update if/when they fail, or produce. white gold and black gold onto sand cherry.
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If not it seems like Mirabelle plum makes a great interstem for lots of these wild varieties, But I didn’t test prunus pumila.
Skip to the end, I was overly enthusiastic at the beginning
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they have not taken, failure at this point
Cherry to cherry on nearby tree is fine, same scion to plum on nearby tree is fine. these, no.
the sand cherries shall be banished to the front yard doom zone. I don’t need more plums
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So I’m happy to say that there is a compatible fruit variety and a plum interstem that should work for peaches, apricots, and others!
I’ve got a Prunus Serotina with 1 out of 17 species and varieties that survived: Mirabelle plum!
Mirabelle plum (a myrobalan cross), is obviously a very useful interstem as well and this could be used for grafting almost anything on to Timber Black Cherry!
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I found what appeared to be a thorny Callery pear seedling there’s a Bradford down the road, and I grafted Apples, Asian pears, and a Clara Frijs on it in 2023, it’s doing great! I tried an apple scion (perhaps evercrisp) on it in 2022 and it took, but I decided it was too high and redid the whole tree, and even added a lower branch on it.
I would say between Callery pear and apple grafts there is FULL COMPATIBILITY with no interstems to the apple grafts, the apples even seem to be outgrowing the Asian pears.
This Callery pear tree is a seedling and could be an open pollinated hybrid.
The apple grafts on it are:
Crispen apple
Cripps Pink apple
Winner Banana apple
Apple-Pear Cross (That’s the name, it possible is just a new apple variety, not a pear hybrid at all).
Pears:
My Apple-Pear Frankentree
The Cripp’s Pink graft, bark graft in trunk.
A well healed Clara Frijs, 2 Asian pear grafts, and apparently an Apple pear cross graft.
Winter Banana Apple outperforming Asian pear.
Clara Frijs
And 3 different Asian pear varieties with lost labela.
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