Here we will stick with P.2 and M111. Have some ohf87 and 333 left. Will add some BA-29C and M106 just to let them fruit out.
Will be adding P.18 , P.22 for sure. Wanted G.890 but will pass. Maybe G.935 in it’s place , but maybe not.
Also will grafting P.14 on nurse roots this year.
I will be using M111 for my apple grafts and Krymk1 for my plums. I have heavy clay soil.
ok so you can use apple rootstock with pear interstem ?
I switched most of my young pears to now all be on calleryana. I think it will be an excellent rootstock for East Texas
how is the size of them
I’m using all B9 this year for my apple grafts. I’m planning to trial several new varieties and don’t want to dedicate too much room to it. Any varieties that do well (and taste good) may then be grafted as a semi dwarf or standard tree.
A few B10s to graft and give away to people in town. A few common domestic pear to plant in the woods and graft later.
I’m pretty much out of room in my orchards.
I’m just using Wild Plum (Prunus Americana) rootstock for my plums/pluots and maybe a few peaches.
I’m trying out stooling on some M111 apple rootstock. Hopefully it works!
sorry got to many conversation going on at one time
Who said that?
sorry i misread it
With sand fathoms deep and the near-desert conditions in my yard, I have learned the value of St. Julian A, Geneva30 and Budagovsky118. Unless I find another stock that can do better in these conditions, I will stool ‘em so long as I live.
Geneva30 has fallen out of favor, which is a shame, since most people will not be grafting Gala to it. In all kinds of weather, it has not lost any of the perhaps 20 varieties I have grafted to it.
I’m keep a small shady section of my garden stocked with rootstock (from seed) so I got mahaleb, antonovka, Bartlett ($5 says that died at -38f), myro, and manchurian. Will be starting American plum for next year. My guess is that I’ll be regrafting lots of stuff due to zone pushing. The weather forgot we are zone 4 now.
