The climate in New Zealand…would it be like Zone 8-10 or do you get ’cold’ weather in your Winters? I live in southern California and as you know, we dont get much ’rain’ let alone temperatures below 50* almost all year long. i visited Campbell Town Scotland once and that temperture remained cool and damp most of the year…(I was informed)…and though i always wanted to ’see’ Australia and New Zealand, i never got an invite so i don’t know the climate. a great encouragement to guys like us is to watch videos on Youtube about growing Food Forests!!!!…and those guys amazing success about all types of ideas!!!!!

Thank you Chills! No, that's not the Stella branch. >>Konrad, to do that in your climate...You are truly a marvelYou really have to give this credit to our cold winters. Giuseppe, try to contact someone in the US, it's illegal to ship live plant material across. .... .... Not sure why nurseries have to lie.. I have e- mailed a nursery in the US about the false statement in their website saying: Bali was know in Canada as the Evans Cherry They where nice enough to fix it next day to: is know in Canada as Evans... Also they where saying.. > That probably wasn't the biggest lie on our website. Let me know if > you find others I also asked about the Evans they sell, grafted or on their own root? Reply: Where the heck do you get them on their own root??? We are also Zone 3, and our Bali, which we get from Bailey Nurseries in St. Paul, are grafted onto Mazzard Cherry rootstock, which is commonly listed as Zone 5. It is telling, I think, that I've never seen or heard of a plain old Mazzard Cherry growing as a tree in this area. And indeed I've heard reports of them dying over winter. I told them that I bought about a 100 trees 15 years ago from DNA. And that I would plant the grafted ones below the graft for zone 3, they thought it was a good idea. Konrad

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."

Not really sure Sengyan You have a difficult time to this because you have one larger mother root feeding it! How far away is it from the trunk? I was just thinking,.. leave it alone and graft on it, they can grow very close together, even a foot is fine!...Our trees don't grow huge anyway and you can always cut it down low. But...if you are thinking of moveing anyway, this is what I would do. Cut about 2/3 of the root with a saw the first year, [spring] the root leading to it from the main trunk, about a foot away from the sucker, also, cut the root going away from the sucker all the way. Then in another year cut completely thru. Konrad