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["Dave Griffin" <griffingardens@earthlink.net>]

Tom,

 I don't know, I'll let you know after the next test winter. Most of the
time when the trunks were dead and the twigs not, the damage was within the
bottom 18" and usually in the bottom 12". The ones with trunk damage higher
than that had dead twigs too, mostly, so I concluded that they  probably
would have died no matter how high the stem builder was. 
 I budded them around 18" this year with some lower and some higher for a
test.

Dave
zone 4a


> [Original Message]
> From: Thomas Olenio
> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>; 
> Date: 10/30/04 12:29:46 PM
> Subject: [NAFEX] Re: Rootstocks/dormancy
>
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:19:55 -0500, Dave Griffin  
> <griffingardens@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> >  <snip>
> >  So for me the answer is budding high onto a hardy rootstock to form a
> > stem builder tree, but not for what doing this might contribute to the
> > scion hardiness so much as for what it does for the trunk itself -  
> > provide hardiness to what in some years is a vulnerable part of the
tree.
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> How "high" is high enough?
> 
> Later,
> Tom
> 
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