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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: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:14:45 -0500

And one of the reasons they MAY have been able to propagate by cuttings is
these locations mentioned do NOT
have devastating winters that kill delicate rooted cuttings.

Of course, every method of difficult propagation succeeds - in the journals.
It makes good reading, but don't
confuse this with reality.
Charlie Paradise
zone 5 / Massachusetts

Diane Whitehead wrote:

> A search on "peach meadows" "high density peach plantings" or "peach
> cuttings" leads to a number of abstracts of papers presented at
> several symposia, such as ISHS Acta Horticulturae 173: International
> Conference on Peach Growing
>
> These orchards are planted with 10,000 trees per hectare (4000 per
> acre), and using rooted cuttings is far cheaper than using grafted
> trees. Rooting the cuttings in situ produces trees that can tolerate
> drought better than transplanted ones.
>
> Countries that have done this: Brazil, Italy, and somewhere in the
> mid-East.
>
> Diane Whitehead, Victoria BC, Canada





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