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  • From: Charles Paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] peach cuttings made to root
  • Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:20:39 -0500

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Let's put it this way:
There are NO nurseries in the United States that sell peaches self-rooted.
There was an interesting article some years ago - I can dig it up for you if you really want to know - saying that self-rooted peaches can outperform budded peaches.   But when I called the professors who wrote the article they admitted no nurseries had adopted the method.

IF you can get cuttings from any Prunus to root, and many won't, your biggest problem will be getting them to survive the following winter.  So if you do get roots, the following winter can break your heart.

Oh and a third problem too:  rooted, survived winter, these things may grow like weeds or stay small like Bonsai.  I've got a hybrid plum I got on its own roots and its spent 3 years sitting there growing as slowly as can be.  Did it forget how to grow on its own roots?

BUT it has been done.  Years ago my father took a dormant cutting of J.C. Hale peach, stuck it in his cold frame and produced a powerful-growing self-rooted peach.  The tree was a superstar, while it lived.

To give it a try, yes, you'll want rooting hormone, and wherever you put the cuttings to root, DON'T move them or the shock will cause them to die immediately or in the following winter.

You say you've had apple trimmings fall and root.  We'd all be very interested to hear what varieties apples these are.  A few apples have the ability to root, and I don't think anybody has ever compiled any list of which varieties will.  Some varieties may be worse on their own root, others could be a big advantage, would depend on variety.

Did you retain any of the self-rooted apples?
Charlie Paradise
zone 5 / Massachusetts

How hard is it to take cuttings from a peach tree and plant them to make new trees?What time of year?Rooting hormones?Not worth the time?I have had apple trimmings fall into newly disked soil and start to root and grow.                skip s.

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