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  • From: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] disease and dwarfed peaches
  • Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 20:29:19 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

Bob,

I was referring to the ultimate tree size when I used "standard". It's
usually 'Lovell' or 'Nemaguard', but includes a few on 'Halford' and some
own-rooted trees that are not genetic dwarfs.

Did you see leaf curling associated with any of the dwarf peach stocks you
used?

Anton

-----Original Message-----
>From: ROBERT W JUDY A HARTMAN <hartmansfruit@msn.com>
>Sent: Oct 6, 2008 6:15 PM
>To: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>, North American Fruit Explorers
><nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] disease and dwarfed peaches
>
>Anton,
>
>I haven't grafted peach onto Citation but I have grafted onto St Julian A.
>I gave up grafting onto St Julian A because of problems. The peach trees
>are doing great on Pumiselect. I have noticed a little problem on the two I
>have on Krymsk 1. I have more budded in on Krymsk 1 that I did this summer.
> Two is too small a number to make a judgement on it. When you say standard
>stock are you talking about just any peach seedling or ones like Lovell?
>The one thing I don't like about Pumiselect is that it has a brittle shank.
>I had a couple break off well below the graft union in a strong wind last
>fall before the leaves had fallen.
>
>Bob
>Western Washington
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Anton Callaway<mailto:marillen@earthlink.net>
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org<mailto:nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 6:30 PM
> Subject: [NAFEX] disease and dwarfed peaches
>
>
> I've noticed over the years that all the peaches I have on Citation
> rootstock look relatively sick compared to those on standard stock. They
> typically have poor color in the leaves, not dark green and show epinasty
> (leaf rolling) and increased bacterial spot damage. The effect is most
> extreme late in the season.
>
> At first I blamed it on the scion cultivar. My first peach dwarfed on
> Citation was George IV. I've never grown such a sickly tree before, though
> the peaches were good. Now I've got more cultivars, including one with a
> standard comparison, Indian Blood Free. IBF is rather susceptible to
> bacterial spot anyway, but the other symptoms don't show on the standard
> stock.
>
> Have others seen similar effects of dwarfing rootstocks on peaches?
>
> My genetic dwarfs are all very healthy, so it doesn't appear to be the
> dwarfing per se. However, another contributor with a good collection of
> peaches has reported similar effects from PumiSelect.
>
> Anton
> Zone 8
> Fruit season over, just enjoying the canned pears, preserves, etc.
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