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[Nate <nrhora@gmail.com>]

Further to last post:

Forgot to mentionthat sometimes there might be excessive treestock of
original orchard. You might want to ensure proper spacing is adequete
and weed/yank out any loose trees that shouldn't be moved over. Take
count of healthy specimens, and others with potential (with proper
pruning they should come a long well)


On 7/10/06, Nate <nrhora@gmail.com> wrote:
> O.Callis,
>
> First of all, MOVE THE HORSES! You really need to keep livestock/farm
> animals in seperate pens/areas. Once that's outta the way...
>
> A Mr. Molikonomor once was in a similar situation, and wanted to
> restore his orchard to it's former glory. One suggestion he put
> forward on my calling, was to move said trees to an exisiting or new
> area where there is rich soil saturation, proper drainage.
>
> If in either a existing/new area, make sure proper spacing is in
> place, because you want to achieve lateral positioning of trees, so
> they look uniform, row by row.
>
> In our opinion an existing area would be ideal, as there is strong
> rootage already in place, which will have a more likelyhood of
> survivability, since there is less chance of erosion taking place.
> Also noted is that cross-polination will exist on a better scale, as
> more trees will be able to breed.
>
>
>
> On 7/10/06, oliver smith callis <oliversmithcallis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > I am conducting a heritage fruit tree preservation project in my area, Utah
> > Valley, Utah. I have just come across a stand of peach trees which are
> > around 100 to 120 years old. The grandson of the man who planted the trees
> > said that his great grandmother brought a peach tree here from France which
> > was used as the rootstock. The trees are in bad shape as horses have been
> > kept in the orchard they are in, and may not last long. It seems to me that
> > this would be a good rootstock to preseve as most commercial orchardists in
> > my area say that peach trees don't typically last longer than 25 years. Does
> > anybody have any info on stimulating a root into producing a tree or any
> > other means of propogating the rootstock? An orchardist here suggested
> > "hitting them with nitrates in the spring" to get something off of the
> > roots. I would prefer to use a biodynamic/organic method of propogation, any
> > input would be great.
> > Much appreciated,
> >
> > --
> > Oliver Smith Callis
> >
> >
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