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Have Grafts Healed OK?
Comments (8)Thanks. The original trunk is quite a bit larger than the graft, however just a few inches above the picture is where it ends--this seedling was quite a good grower and doing very well, then a deer cleaned his horns on it and destroyed everything more than about a foot above the ground. I didn't cut it off, and have left the lower sprouts so far because I would like to give the rootstock some time to bloom and find out if it produces a decent apple or a crab. I also wanted to give it some unhindered growth after losing over 90% of the tree to the deer. So, I figured I'd just let both go for a while. The graft is also growing quite rapidly and is as tall or taller than anything on the rootstock now (and it isn't competing for light), so I haven't been too concerned about the sprouts taking too much energy away from the graft. I guess what I could do is remove the main trunk and most of the sprouts now, then once I get some branches on the graft, work a branch over to a scion from the rootstock, retaining the original to see what it produces, but pushing all the energy into the graft? The area where this tree and other seedlings are planted was a corner in an alfalfa field that is very difficult to work and infested with white top and canada thistle, so for now everything is fenced with snow fence and being grazed in the summer by a couple sheep bucks. Haven't decided what to do with this in the future yet, though, as I would like to keep it available for grazing and the sheep are happy to prune everything beneath 6 feet, which means the trees will have to grow a little tall to reach by hand....See MoreGrafting Tree Peonies
Comments (3)Rian, Any pure P. lactiflora will work. The cheap chinese cultivars that Walmart sells all fall into this catagory and would do fine. If you use a hybrid peony to use as rootstock then those roots will more than likely be adventitious and they will cast stems. I have a high incidence of Japanese tree peonies that are on rootstock that is adventitious but it seems that these cast stems after I have had them in the ground 2 or 3 years. Many times by that time the tree peony had a good root system of its own. I made a mistake early on. I found a tree peony that had herbaceous stems rising from the root stock. I dug the plant, removed the nurse root and replanted the tree peony. Since the root was used as rootstock I felt it would be ideal to divide it, plant it out and later use it as rootstock. BAD MISTAKE! The root had obviously demonstrated itself to be adventitious and thereby I was selecting for adventitious roots to use as rootstock. Hindsight is always 20/20. Leon...See MoreFruit Grafting in Fall?
Comments (1)It's worth a try. In zone 6 it may be too late. I did do chip buds today in my greenhouse. Same healing needed but it's still 90 in there by day and 50-60 at night. Pears are the easiest to graft. Just save some wood for spring. You will need good storage conditions if they are to survive 6 months....See MoreHow doth your Darcey grow?
Comments (2)Thank you farmerduck. That's quite a bit wider than the DA site suggests. I think we're probably fairly similar in terms of zone etc. so I'm going with 3' x 4'....See Moresevernside
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