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  • From: "Richard O'Barr" <aatopgunaa@mindspring.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Prunus americana
  • Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:56:58 -0600

I have grafted sloe plum with Au Rosa plum from Auburn, AL and the scion
vastly overgrew the sloe rootstock. That was in zone 8.

Topgun
Zone
7
----- Original Message -----
From: <robscott@freeshell.org>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 8:33 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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