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[Rondi <nafex@mokalive.com>]

I'm in SE Kansas and a friend of mine uses Red Havens peach seedlings for rootstock because they've grown well for him here. I've bought some Marianna rootstock and hope to see how they do over this summer. So far they've come through the winter well and look great.

I've bought rootstock from Treco (large quantities only and it was for apples) The peach and pear I got were from either One Green World or Raintree (one of the other sells rootstock). They are available as single plants. Treco only sells rootstock so their catalog had a lot more detail. 

Also, although height is important to me I was more concerned about fireblight resistance, heat tolerance and heavy clay soil adaptability. First it had to survive.

Rondi
On Mar 14, 2006, at 8:51 PM, nafex-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Back to the dwarf peach, I have tried a number of rootstocks and most of  the 
> stock that produced a significant dwarf did not produce a long lived tree.  
> You are right that to prune a tree to maintain a "dwarf" size means that  you 
> remove a lot of fruiting wood, but any dwarf tree produces less than a  full 
> size tree. So, in the "crap-shoot" I would prefer a tree pruned to provide  the 
> size I want and live much longer, than to put it on a rootstock with a known  
> short life.
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> Ed  Mashburn
> Central PA
> Zone 5A
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