[NAFEX] peach cuttings made to root

Diane Whitehead voltaire at islandnet.com
Wed Mar 17 13:46:46 EST 2004


A search on "peach meadows"  "high density peach plantings" or "peach 
cuttings" leads to a number of abstracts of papers presented at 
several symposia, such as ISHS Acta Horticulturae 173: International 
Conference on Peach Growing

These orchards are planted with 10,000 trees per hectare (4000 per 
acre), and using rooted cuttings is far cheaper than using grafted 
trees.  Rooting the cuttings in situ produces trees that can tolerate 
drought better than transplanted ones.

  Countries that have done this: Brazil, Italy, and somewhere in the mid-East.

Diane Whitehead,  Victoria BC, Canada




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