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[Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hello,

After carefully selecting scion and rootstock, to achieve the variety and 
sized tree you want, why would you
toss that away?

Also, on more mature trees even a shift in grade of a few inches can kill a 
tree.  Once a soil depth is set, it
is usually permanently set.

Young wood (whips/seedlings) can tolerate changes in soil depth on the trunk, 
however mature wood suffers and
dies.

That is my experience anyway.

Later,
Tom

tanis cuff wrote:

> <snip>The only problem I've found is, what if I decide I want the topwork 
> to grow
> its own roots?  Then I have to dig a trench in order to get all the
> rootstock below ground. <snip>