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  • From: "Richard O'Barr" <aatopgunaa@mindspring.com>
  • To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pecan on hickory --> dwarfing?
  • Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 08:35:22 -0600

Regarding pecan on Hickory. It is reported to work with most hickories and
las 20 years or so even with overgrowth. However there are some tetraploid
hickories and I do not know how they would work.

R. D. O'Barr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucky Pittman" <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 8:27 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Pecan on hickory --> dwarfing?


> At 06:23 PM 1/6/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >Lucky
> > Why not graft the pecan to the dwarf hickory?
>
> Well, Gordon,
> That had crossed my mind, but I don't know how well that would work - I'd
> be concerned that the more vigorous pecan, on top of a hickory rootstock,
> or even a hardy pecan root with a 'dwarfing' hickory interstem, would
> 'outgrow' the hickory, and be prone to breakover at the graft union.
> Perhaps it's a misplaced concern, but some of the long-timers in the KNGA
> had warned me about this phenomenon when I first got started playing with
> nut trees, but I've not actually seen it.
>
> Lucky
>
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