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[Bernie Nikolai <bnikolai@shaw.ca>]

Rob here in Edmonton we have put a number of trees of Mount Royal Plum on
Americana.  It is very dwarfing to Mount Royal, a really nice and hardy
European plum from Montreal, Quebec.  We bury the graft by a foot so the
Mount Royal self roots in a couple of years, then it takes off nicely.  So
be careful.  It isn't a good rootstock for some European plums at least,
like Mount Royal.
Bernie Nikolai
Edmonton Alberta
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <robscott@freeshell.org>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 6:33 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Prunus americana


>
> I am on the verge of submitting a major grant proposal for an experimental
> orchard that would use Prunus americana as rootstock for a plum orchard.
> Prunus americana is sold as a rootstock occasionally, so I assumed it
> could take P. domestica (european) grafts, but a few people this past week
> have suggested that it's only for grafting american plums (beach plum,
> chicksaw, etc.) which is not whayt I'm writing a grant for.
>
> Does anyone have experience with P. americana as a rootstock for grafting
> cultivated varieties *of any kind* that could chime in with experience?
> Would greatly appreciate it.
>
> John Bunker, thanks for presenting the pollenation problem with plums so
> clearly and *concisely*! Very helpful.
>
> Robert Scott
> Urbana Permaculture Project
> Urbana, IL zone 5b
> (zone 6 in the city)
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