[NAFEX] flood-tolerant apple rootstock needed?

William Freels w.freels at worldnet.att.net
Thu Feb 8 10:25:17 EST 2007


Jackie:

I do not know of an available apple rootstock that will dependably tolerate this wet site.  Hopefully you can improve the planting site by installing underground drain pipes.

The  4" diameter, with 1/8" slits, flexible black plastic pipe, that you can usually buy for 35 cents per foot, at the large farm stores, is what I would use.  Bury this pipe at least 24" deep, deeper if possible, to capture the water above your trees and "as needed" to keep the whole area free of seepage.  There must be an open ditch or something for the captured water to flow, freely by gravity, into. 

It is good that you have recognized the seepage problem before the trees were planted.  

Sincerely,  Bill Freels, Paducah, Ky   
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jackie Jameson 
  To: North American Fruit Explorers 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:14 PM
  Subject: Re: [NAFEX] flood-tolerant apple rootstock needed?


  Hi -

  I'm also interested in flood tolerance in apple / rootstock.

  I want to plant a small orchard on a hillside, not a floodplain.  However, this hillside is covered with seeps and is constantly wet.

  Jackie


  On 1/30/07, tanis grif <tanisgrif at yahoo.com> wrote:
    I don't think I've posted much (tanis cuff/ tanistanis hotmail same as tanisgrif
    yahoo) about the tree proper.  It is owned by some else, so I felt the primary task
    was to collect all the info I could about propagating & possibly patenting it, so I 
    could tell owner all options available & most practical methods, and probable
    time-line.  Also, publicizing too much about the tree starts the time-window of when
    the patenting process must start.

    Tree might be naturally dwarfing, but that needs to be trialed.  History strongly 
    suggests it is an own-root chance seedling.  It produces crops of fair-to-nice fruit
    in a marshy region where other apple trees hardly flower.  This combo of phenomonal
    roots AND good fruit will have to be tested, to prove whether it is actually a 
    chance seedling, not someone's long-lost topwork.  Also note this is in s.WI-- z4
    more realisticly than z5-- which beats the winter hardiness of other flood-tol
    rootstocks (yes?).




    --- nbeaureg wrote: 

    >
    > flood tolerance is a great quality, and should be very salable.
    > why?
    > because it is Usually associated with several other very desirable qualities.
    >
    > compaction tolerance and low O2 tolerance. 
    >
    > i don't know the current market for rootstocks though.
    >
    > has the vigor & size of this tree been discussed?
    >
    > zone 5
    > w-mass
    >
    > ncb
    >
    >
    >
    > Quoting tanis cuff <tanistanis at hotmail.com>:
    >
    > > Please & thanks for your views of the current need or market demand for a
    > > very flood-tolerant apple rootstock. 
    > >
    >





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