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Ed, did you also experiment with M9 on M111?

On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 12:19  PM, Ed Fackler wrote:

> Derry:
>
>      There was a mistake in the wording on my original message.  Or, 
> instead
> of MM111 it should have read MM106 and with this combination (9 on 
> MM106)
> there is no suckering at all when the lower graft union is burried.  
> We left
> the upper 2" of the 9 section exposed.  Resulting tree size was around
> 10-12' with Gala as the fruiting variety.
>
> ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:44 AM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples
>
>
> Ed,.
>
> How is MM106/M9 for the understock suckering?
>
> I've been making MM106/M9/apple but not burying the lower union. What 
> size
> do you think I can expect on medium vigour scions?
>
> Derry
>
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>
> >      The most uniform and productive trees came from the combination 
> > you
> > mentioned below or M9 on MM106.  Trees resulted in a true semi-dwarf 
> > or
> > about 12' tall, had better limb angles and the MM111 was nearly non
> > suckering.  We buried the lower graft union by around 6" with 2" of 
> > the M9
> > portion about soil surface.
>
> > Ed, So. Ohio cool fall-like weather.
>
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