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

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Re: [NAFEX]grafting ribes

It's possible to use a long, straight Josta stem and graft a gooseberry to the top of it, giving you a plant that is rather like a tree rose.  This is done in Britain.
-Lon Rombough
> From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:10:04 +0000
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] Re: [NAFEX]grafting ribes

> >Has anyone ever tried grafting these weeping-form currants onto rootstocks 
> >of more upright form ?  Results ?
> >Tanis Cuff
>
> This brings up a question I have had.....I bought a josta 3 years back, it 
> is now5 feet tall, hasn't so much as bloomed yet. When do these things 
> produce?
> I propagated a bunch from sticks this last spring and they have grown 3 
> times as much as any other ribes I propagated, impressive growth.
> Would not they make a good rootstock? Are they worth grafting to?  If so,  
> what kind of graft?  Del
>
>
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