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  • From: edforest55@hotmail.com
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Tender rootstocks in zone 3
  • Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 15:59:39 -0000

Stubbs Rockyman,
David Bedford of the MN extension told me that MM 111 should do well
in the northern MN snowbelt, as they get reliable snow and have grown
similar rootstocks in N. MN for many years. I myself wouldn't use
such cold tender rootstocks though unless you have pure sand. Why
take the risk or that early, pre- snow sub zero killer? The standards
in that area don't grow very large anyway. (I have my nursery in zone
3, 95 day season, N WI) I thought I had pure sand on my land in N WI
until I saw the "soil" of one of my customers just north of my
nursery, as pure as beach sand. I will be grafting some super hardy
varieties for her on MM 111, in her case the soil is the major
concern. (She could certainly build up the soil but this hasn't been
possible for her and it would take an awful lot of organic matter).
Bernie Nikolai has been using some tender rootstocks also if I recall
in his zone 3 orchard. My 111 rootstocks are 12 year old I believe at
my N. WI site, they die back to the snow line each winter but the
roots have not been damaged yet.
Kevin



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