I planned 1 apple and 1 pear espalier project and bought 3x the root stock from cummis. I am glad I did. Two of the g.202 root stock are showing almost 0 growth. 1 dead bud between them. the trunks are all green and healthy but there has been no root growth. OF the three apple trees in question these two where almost unrooted cuttings when I got them.
The Pears ox87 are doing even worse. One has 3 inches of black decayed trunk at the top. I will lob that off tomarrow and apply bleach spray in hopes to save it. The other is rather lifeless also.
Takes awhile for some root stocks to begin to show life. Extremely rare that I dont have a root stock push growth and sometimes it originates from below the soil line. Alot of root stocks can have very few roots on them when planted. If you keep disturbing the root stock to check for root growth you are not helping the growing process. Not saying you are but dont over water.
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Agreed, I read that Geneva Root stocks are particularly difficult to root. The lack of existing roots have me worried but they overall look healty. The root stock was planted in my staging bed which consists of nearly 100% potting spoil. I only checked once when I moved them to there staging pots.
There is defiantly a problem here. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Still on movement on this guy. a couple of the lower buds look narcotic but it appears to not be spreading. something nicked it half way up.
This guy is still way behind the healthy one but at least its pushing bud growth.
This is the uprooted pear from earlier. I cut off the narcotic part but it continued to die down past the cut. It appears to have stopped at the first bud from the new cut. At least its pushing a new bud from the bottom.
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