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

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Miniature Apple Trees

There is a very good coverage of dwarf rootstocks and how different varieties perform on them in "Apples For the 21st Century" by Warren Manhart.
-Lon Rombough
> From: "Doreen Howard" <doreenh@ticon.net>
> Organization: None
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:59:47 -0500
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Miniature Apple Trees

> Yesterday, I visited Gene Yale in Skokie, IL and saw his miniature apple
> orchard.  He has 165 tiny trees on a lot that is 43 feet by 55 feet.  He
> uses M27 and P22 rootstock for his trees and has an exacting pruning regime
> for 2 years that creates a bearing tree in the third year that is about 3 to
> 6 feet tall and no wider.  The fruit is full size, and each tree bears 20 to
> 40 apples.  This orchard is totally amazing.  I shot photos in a driving
> rain yesterday and hope to share them later on the Nafex site.
>
> You can see his orchard now and read about his techniques at:
> http://www.enteract.com/~midfex/yale/intro.html
>
> Do any of you have experience with M27, P22 or Bud-9 rootstock on apples?  I
> was so blown away by this orchard that I am ordering trees custom-grafted
> from Big Horse Creek Farms and Bay Laurel to plant.  I have a small suburban
> lot and figured I didn't have the room for apples.
>
> Any discussion about the merits and drawbacks of various super-dwarfing
> rootstock would be interesting.  What say you all?
> Doreen Howard
>
>
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