The ongoing saga of the prune on nanking cherry

General Fruit Growing
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A most interesting saga Mark, very inventive! I will definitely have fun with your scions! Dennis

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I grafted a Reliance peach to Nanking 15 yrs ago. It is still growing and producing. Really dwarfed the peach but it is really overgrowing the Nanking now. It is in my GH so protected from wind otherwise it may have broken at graft by now.

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It’s weird when the top overgrows like that. My plum on Nanking seems to be pretty balanced, and it takes almost no pruning to keep it at ~5 feet tall. If it dwarfs apricot like it does plum and peach, and I think it would, you could end up with a nice small 'cot that you could bag to keep squirrels out.

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@aplguy That is very interesting to hear. I planted 3 Hansen Bush Cherries and 2 Nanking Cherries several weeks ago and they are starting to leaf out and look good.
My plan is to graft Reliance Peach onto my wild American Plums I planted last year, as well as grafting AU Rosa plum and Waneta plum on them. Any left over scion wood of those varieties I plan to graft onto the Hansen Bush Cherries and Nanking cherries and see what happens. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
I am quite interested in the dwarfing aspect of Reliance peach on the Nanking rootstock and hope that is how it works out.
Sandra

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It definitely dwarfed it but Reliance on Nanking not a good match. Reliance over growing the root bad. and suckering.

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not growing apricot so no clue but Reliance and Nanking not compatible d/t it over growing root.

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@aplguy Hmmm…. That is definitely something to think about. I wonder if a less aggressive peach would work better, if there is such a thing. Anyway, thanks for the info.
Sandra

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Nanking root did not affect fruit size either If not in my GH pretty sure wind would have snapped the graft off by now

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Can you post a picture of the peach graft on your 15 years old Nanking? I just grafted some plum/pluots onto my 3 years old Nanking and just curious how it will turn out.

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I will soon, I’ll try and get photos today

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Ooo that gives me a real good idea :rofl:

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