Cherry tree grafting - Prunus Serotina Virginiana
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can i graft a fruit cherry tree to a wild cherry tree?
Comments (20)I have read that in this instance that people can do two grafts. The native variety being the most hardy and strongest rooting, then a short intermediary piece which can bridge between the native and fruiting varieties. Can anyone assist? Or know someone who can? I have cut down a large native cherry and would like to graft lapins and stella to the sprouts which are sure to come up this spring. "example taken from plum/almond stone fruit grafting" - " Also (and this is where the fun starts) most fruit trees in the Prunus genus are sometimes compatible with each other: almonds, apricots, nectarines, peaches, and plums all are compatible for grafting, but occasionally it's complicated. For example, some plum rootstock is not compatible with peaches or nectarines; and some almonds require an intermediate step before grafting onto some plum rootstocks."...See Moreprunus virginiana/pennsylvanica as a shrub?
Comments (2)I have all three species (pennsylvanica, virginiana, and serotina) growing naturally on our farm, and wouldn't want to have any of them in a suburban yard: messy (stains concrete, yard furniture,etc.), too many seedlings, and too large to maintain easily as a hedge. I don't think your neighbors would appreciate your planting any of them. You might want to look into beach plum, Prunus maritima, which naturally is about 6' tall, though it does sucker, and is popular with critters for food. NHDOT has planted some in in the median of one of the highways near me, so it will grow away from the beach and is salt tolerant. It is adaptable as far as soil, but likes reasonable drainage. I don't know where you live, and I don't know how well this plant adapts to parts of the country beyond New England. IME, all Prunus are relatively short-lived and disease prone, with black knot and webworms being the two most noticeable issues around here. I don't see a lot of foliage diseases, however. You might want to look at a mixed species hedge so that if disease is an issue, there are other plants to help fill in....See MoreEastern Tigers and Prunus Species Besides Serotina
Comments (7)They DO use other prunus species, according to what I've read, and I don't doubt it, because, I know from my personal experience that they use a variety of host plant trees. Although they prefer p. serotina around here, they've also used my pteleas, and I've seen one lay an egg on a tulip tree in Alabama. What about common chokecherry/p. virginiana or any plum/prunus? Or what about any type of malus/apple or crabapple? Red-spotted purples prefer prunus serotina, also, but they use my crabapples from time to time, and I've read that tigers use malus pumila. Tigers also reportedly use willows and cottonwoods/salicaceae, camphor tree/cinammomum, catalpa, American hornbeam/carpinus caroliniana, cottonwood/populus, mock orange/styrax americana, sassafras, sweet bay/magnolia virginiana, spicebush/lindera, common lilac/syringa vulgaris and ashes/fraxinus. The plants in our FAQ host plant list are just plants that somebody on this forum has had actual personal experience with - we didn't see any reason to just copy lists from books. Our FAQ doesn't get updated very often, which reminds me, if you're reading this LarryGene, ptelea trifoliata should be added as a host plant for tiger swallowtails - they've laid eggs on mine, and I've raised some on it. MissSherry...See MoreFlagpole cherry tree (aka Prunus Amanogawa)
Comments (1)I know you were probably just looking for something a little different, but there is a reason why Kwanzan and Yoshino are the two most popular varieties. Amanogawa is a flowering cherry tree. "Fruits & Orchards" was not an appropriate place to put this, you should have posted it in the "Trees" forum. Since this was posted in the "Fruits & Orchards" forum, I'll let everyone in on a little tidbit of information. Japanese ornamental (i.e. "flowering") cherries are very very closely related to fruiting cherries (P. avium). In fact, they both happen to have a 2n=16 chromosome count; whereas all the other cherries are 2n=32 (Prunus cerasus, Prunus Serotina, etc). In Japan the original flowering cherries that were found in wild have been categorized into 9 different species, and there is one additional flowering cherry species that was originally native to Southern China and Taiwan. Of course, the Japanese later hybridized these wild cherries into the cultivated ornamental varieties that we see today. The fruit that appears on Japanese flowering cherry trees is very small and generally not suitable for eating. I've read that Kwanzan is sterile, and the Yoshino variety is a terrible pollinator, so these may not be able to pollinate your other cherry trees. Whether it could be possible for one to potentially classify Japanese flowering cherries under the same "species" as fruiting cherries is a matter of opinion; perhaps the analogy of different "races" within the human species is appropriate. Hybridization is certainly possible, resulting in fertile offspring, but the hybrid offspring are often not as hardy or well-adapted to their environment as the parent species. This is an area where there has been very little research....See MoreRelated Professionals
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