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Cliff thought his Shin had completely snapped below the graft union because the fruits he was getting from his snow damaged mother tree were astringent. After consulting with me, he decided to change his idea about Shin being non-astringent. Really, if he was getting fruit from the rootstock what are the odds they'd even be edible? What I had was extremely precocious which should be a pretty good indicator of variety. Why are you debating about the shape? To me they look more like Fuyu than the astringent varieties in stores. Maybe I just have no eye for shapes. Let's move on.

All of these are varieties that are typically carried by local area nurseries. They should be fine for the Portland area. FWIW, there are sometimes issues with multi-grafted fruits trees and one or more of the grafts failing. It is a relatively common problem and one you might want to be aware of.

Though information is hard to come by for these things (and often contradictory), from what I've gathered, 100-46 is a descendant of Early Golden. I assume this means that it is better in some way, so I'd rather go with it. I'm pretty well settled on planting a Prok. It's the other tree that I haven't decided on yet. (I also have woods, and I've considered getting a cheap bundle of seedlings to toss in there too, but I know that wouldn't bear fruit for a good decade, and I'm not sure I actually want to make my fruit seeded.)