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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

I think Sam must have seen the planting of layered suckers - the roots
aren't especially large when they are dug and if he saw the planting from a
distance, it might have looked like plain cuttings were being planted.  Rest
assured, filberts do NOT root from unrooted cuttings.
-Lon 
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>From: "Christopher Mauchline" <mauch1@aol.com>
>To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [nafex] Re: Rooting hardwood cuttings - slightly OT
>Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2001, 9:17 AM
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>Since I hadn't had any luck grafting filbert, I was going off of what 
>Sam Franc wrote back in September of 2000:
>
>From:  Sam Franc <franc@h...>
>Date:  Sat Sep 16, 2000 4:02pm
>Subject:  Re: [nafex] Grafting filberts/hazels
>
> 
>>I don't know why you want to graft filberts.
>>They seem to root very readily from cuttings here in Oregon.
>>From what I hear 95% of the filberts grown in the US are grown in 
>>Oregon.
>>I watched a large filbert orchard being started this year.
>>Several acres.
>>They just stuck cuttings in the ground where they want the trees.
>>It looks like they have at least 95% takes this fall.
>>When I want some new trees, I just stick some cuttings in the ground 
>>where I
>>want
>>them to grow.
>>Makes it easy to get a filbert hedge.
>>The squirrils get most of my nuts.
>>Thet must bury them because I see little filbert seedlings coming up 
>>far away
>>from my
>>trees.
>>Sam
>
>Chris Mauchline
>SE PA, zone 6 
>
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>--- In nafex@y..., "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@h...> wrote:
>> Filberts don't root worth a darn from dormant cuttings.  They are 
>stooled
>> (layered) commercially as that's the only way currently to get 
>decent plants
>> in quantity.
>> -Lon Rombough
>> Grapes, unusual fruits, writing, consulting, more, at
>> http://www.hevanet.com/lonrom  See new additions to the site, Feb. 
>2001,
>> plus word on my grape book.
>> 
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>> >From: "Christopher Mauchline" <mauch1@a...>
>> >To: nafex@y...
>> >Subject: [nafex] Rooting hardwood cuttings - slightly OT
>> >Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2001, 6:52 AM
>> >
>> 
>> >In rooting hardwood cutting (Filbert and dogwood) would bottom 
>heat 
>> >be beneficial?
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> >Chris Mauchline
>> >
>> >
>> >
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