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  • From: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Peach rootstock
  • Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:48:44 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

I've got some nice Japanese plum trees growing on PumiSelect. They're 3
years old, so I can''t rule out some kind of delayed incompatibility, but the
literature I read prior to ordering them suggested them for plums as well.

Anton
Zone 8

-----Original Message-----
>From: ROBERT W JUDY A HARTMAN <hartmansfruit@msn.com>
>Sent: Nov 15, 2007 2:35 PM
>To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Peach rootstock
>
>Hi Pete,
>
>What Tom suggested is a good possibility to save the variety of tree that
>your grandfather had. Also I have grafted peach onto the Pumiselect
>rootstock and the Krymsk 1 successfully. Both are somewhat dwarfing.
>Pumiselect will give you a tree about 60% of standard and Krymsk 1 will give
>you a tree about 50% of standard depending on your growing conditions. I
>see that Raintree Nursery has Krymsk 1 available. Off hand I don't know
>where you can get small quantities of Pumiselect. Pumiselect is supposedly
>only good for peach and possibly apricot whereas Krymsk 1 is suppose to be
>good for peach, plum, apricot, and nectarine.
>
>Bob
>Western Washington
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Pete Solis<mailto:petessolis@gmail.com>
> To: North American Fruit Explorers<mailto:nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 5:58 AM
> Subject: [NAFEX] Peach rootstock
>
>
> Hi,
>
> My grandfather had a peach tree on his old farm that's probably going
> to die soon. I'd like to propagate it onto my farm this year, for
> both his sake and mine, but I'm at a loss as to where I can get peach
> rootstock, as my old standbys, St. Lawrence Nursery and FedCo Trees,
> don't carry it. I have no idea what kind of peach it is, other than
> really really delicious. Based on what books I do have my inclination
> is towards Lovell or Halford stock. There haven't been trees of any
> kind on the farm for quite some time. (I'm changing that!)
>
> The soil on the farm is well drained, sandy loam, ex-pasture.
>
> So, do any of you have recommendations for types of stock and
> preferred suppliers?
>
> Thanks a bunch,
> Pete Solis
> (zone 4-5)
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