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[kathryn stout <kathrynwrites@yahoo.com>]

I got good fruit (and a very vigorous tree) from a
Harcot (supposedly dwarf but it was at least 12 feet
tall and still growing, 7 years old , when the
woodchucks got it--burrowed under and ate the roots).
THE FRUIT  was very good. I had to graft it with
Goldcot for cross-pollination. (Decided to do that
after reading the NAFEX library file on apricots.
Apparently the best varieties vary, from one region to
another, and claims to self-pollination--phooey. Plant
two varieties close enough for their branches to cross
or else graft more than one variety on one tree.
Kurle? in Chicago? got apricots that way, that's what
I remember reading. I tried it and it worked. Here, in
Massachusetts. I had a Harcot tree I grafted with
Moorpark, Goldcot, Jersey, and something else. The
Jersey and something else didn't take, the Moorpark
and Goldcot did, but the Goldcot was the star of
pollination. The year after the Goldcot branch died
(early warning of woodchuck damage--one branch wilts
and dries up, in summer--no amount of water revives
it)
the Harcot didn't set fruit. But when the Goldcot
bloomed, the Harcot bloomed, the fruit was good, on
the Goldcot--and ambrosial on the Harcot. 
I am still getting over that woodchuck last
summer--not
over it yet. 

Kathryn
kathrynwrites@yahoo.com



--- "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com> wrote:
> That's the same trouble I had with Puget Gold - lack
> of vigor.  Don't bother
> removing fruit unless you can be sure there IS any -
> it's likely it won't
> set much.  Personally, I never got any fruit on
> mine.  The best results I've
> had so far have been with some seedlings of an old
> heirloom, Mormon Chinese.
> The seed came from Tim Udall in Arizona.  I had one
> tree literally covered
> from tip to base of limbs with fruit last year - the
> heaviest crop of
> apricots I've ever seen in Oregon.  If it can repeat
> that, I may really have
> something.  The 'cots weren't huge, but had good
> flavor.
> -Lon Rombough
> 
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> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:24:59 -0500
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> Subject: [NAFEX] young apricot
> 
> 
> Some of you may remember that I planted a Puget Gold
> apricot from Burnt
> Ridge Nursery last year, in a friend's yard.  (It
> was a housewarming
> present.)  This year he tells me the buds aren't
> green - they're pink.
> It looks like it plans to flower!  I assume we
> should remove any fruit
> that might set.  What's the best time to do this?
> 
> (It was about 3 feet tall when it arrived, and
> didn't grow an inch last
> year.  It leafed out and looked happy, though, so we
> assumed it was
> getting settled and growing roots.)
> 
> Thanks.
> Ginda Fisher
> 
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Rubber electrician's splicing tape is RUBBER, slightly self-adhesive, wound 
on the roll with a plastic backing. You cut off a couple inches, peel off 
the backing, give the rubber a stretch, and wrap your graft.  (I use just 2 
long slanting cuts-- 1 on the scion, & 1 on the stock.)  It holds snug and 
seals, if you wrap beyond the union's ends.  It degrades enough w/in a 
growing season to not worry about it.  (In several years, I think I had ONE 
fall off a little too soon, and ONE stay on a little too long !)

I think it is maybe 3/4" wide; I see that as it's main advantage!  Don't 
know how fast it would degrade if you buried the new graft.  Hmm, you've got 
me pondering how to test this...

tc



>From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] rubber constrictors
>Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 03:00:48 +0000
>
>
>>Ouch.  Have you ever tried grafting w/ rubber electrician's splicing tape? 
>>  It seals against itself but also degrades quickly enough to free up the 
>>girth.  After trying other tapes, wraps, straps, & grafting waxes, I now 
>>use R.E.S.T. only.
>
>I only used rubber bands the first year, have tried cheap (75 cent) plastic 
>electric tape from the farm store, is REST something special?
>It would be nice if it came narrower than 3/4. Constricted grafts are one 
>hazard of using seedling rootstock - where the idea is to bury the graft. 
>The sun never sees the graft union. In the case of the pear the graft was 
>not buried deep enough to self-root either.  Del
>
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