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.
That is one of my wild persimmon rootstocks… grafting Giboshi (Smiths best) to it this spring.
I have 2 Burnt Rridge Nursery.. russian mulberry rootstocks (left over from last year) that I will be grafting mulberry scion too.
TNHunter
For year 2 of learning to graft, I’m doing a few OHx87 and K1’s with Adara interstems, and grafting over at least one myro and two G.214. I failed to document and remember exactly what I did in the 10-14 days between when I potted rootstock and when I grafted it for my 5/5 success…whether I left them in the garage or outside in the shade…so, who knows what will happen this time.
For apple G.214 for dwarf. G 210 for semi dwarf and g.890 for semi standard. Dr. Cummins has his name on the G.210 patent @ Cummins nursery the geneva series are just disease resistant and replant tolerant. I talked to old men who have done this for decades and they told me what im telling you. Take care.
Could you not find it? or decided against it for a different reason?
I have ordered EMLA111, B.9 and G.210. I read all the difficulty @dannytoro1 had with the G.210 but am cautiously optimistic that if I don’t try to graft it right away, it will be good for me. I’m also trying a EMLA111/B.9 interstem experiment. I’m looking for something M.7 sized and both of those fit the bill. We’ll see what works!
I’m also going to try a row of just B.9 to try some stuff like @GrumpyPantsPlants. And EMLA 111 to fill in some larger tree spots!
My source only has G.890 in larger then 1/4 sizes. Most of my scions are 3/16 or 1/4.
My source does have G.935 at lower prices then standard Geneva wholesale. Plus regrades at 20% off list price.
G.214 was the Geneva that was a big failure here. 7 of 50 lived.
Weak graft unions kind of scares me with Geneva in general. We get a lot of wind events here.
Yikes! That’s not good.
I looked and it was @AndySmith (also has a letter logo in yellow!) who had the bad experience with G.210. A lot of graft failures. I think there was some chatter that once they were established they grafted more easily.
Like I said. All rootstocks have a problem. For the Geneva I think it stems from their crab origin.
I really enjoyed how Bud grafts so smoothly and easily. But it is awful in hot and wet climates. Once June arrives you can forget new growth.
A lot of us hope our mad scientist buddy at U of F is successful in gene editing M111 for low chill and early precociousness. That would solve a lot.
