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[Heron Breen <breen@fedcoseeds.com>]

Hi Jim,
If I were you, I would plant additional rootstock  around the current single 
stemmed plum tree and then graft these plum rootstock to the scion cultivar. 
This 
way even if the tree is over growing its one current rootstck it is supported 
and 
nourished by additional roots. You may end up having to use some 2 x 4 braces 
for 
support of the main trunk/crown, but the additional rootstock should help the 
nutritional strangling issue. I did this on a plum that had severe girding a 
few 
years ago. Worked fine.
If someone said this already, forgive the repetition.
Let us know what you end up trying,
Heron Breen
zone 4b, Maine

On Sun Apr 23 12:48 , Hélène Dessureault <interverbis@videotron.ca> sent:

>If the graft is close to the ground, you could add soil around the base of
>the tree up to above the graft union. The stronger tree above would
>hopefully make roots to support itself.
>I have seen the same phonomenon with pears grafted on hawtnorne. Eventually
>the graft cannot support the top growth.
>Hélène, zone 3-4
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Thomas Olenio" tolenio@sentex.net>
>To: "North American Fruit Explorers" nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 8:03 AM
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grafting Question
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>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Would partial girdling (lack of food), slow the process?
>>
>> Later,
>> Tom
>>
>> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 07:56:21 -0400, Jim Fruth jfruth@uslink.net> wrote:
>>
>> >    A few of my plum grafts, that I have performed ten years ago, have
>> > problems.  The diameter of the top is growing faster than the diameter
>of
>> > the rootstock.  It appears as though it will soon choke itself off.  If
>> > these were your trees, what would you do to prolong their life?
>>
>>
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