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["David Consolvo" <fruitopia@nexet.net>]

>From experience, I would change this advice a bit by recommending the grafts 
>onto osage orange be low, near the ground.  Osage orange wood has prominent 
>strong sharp spines, whereas che wood has no spines at all.

David Consolvo
Hungrytown, Virginia


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date:  Thu, 02 Dec 2004 09:04:10 -0600

>Deb,
>You mentioned Osage Orange.  It's commonly used as a cold-hardy(and readily 
>available) rootstock for the edible Chinese Che fruit (Cudrania 
>tricuspidata).  You could plant some OO, let the stems run up 4-6 ft, then 
>topwork them to Che, and have a source of edible fruits.
>While I (and a number of others here) wouldn't necessarily place them in 
>the edible category, trifoliate orange(Poncirus trifoliata) and its dwarf, 
>contorted form, 'Flying Dragon', could certainly have a place in the 
>'thorny' category; I don't recall where you're located, but I know of 
>trifoliates growing outdoors, in the ground, and doing well, as far north 
>as Cincinnati, OH.
>
>
>Lucky Pittman
>USDA Cold Zone 6
>AHS Heat Zone 7
>Hopkinsville, KY
>
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