@clarkinks I forgot to mention it but I did plant a malus fusca (swamp apple) that I purchased from a west coast nursery. My hope was to use it as root stock for an interstem. It grew so poorly, maybe 2 inches at most, that I pulled it out. I am not sure whether to blame the poor performance on the mismatch between the plant site and its needs, on the fact that it was a pencil thin bare root or on my broadly deficient nurseryman’s skills. I think perhaps @Levers101 had a similar experience.
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