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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

Thanks.  Here there was hail a couple times; hurt corn more than fruit trees. 
 (But
then, there's more corn in my neighborhood.)  I lost one graft which was 
cropping
for first time and was too heavy and broke 3" BELOW the graft.  Small comfort 
in
knowing it was a good graft!



--- W3cmp wrote:

> Hello all:
>      Woke up this morning after a fitful night of  sleep/listening to winds 
> and found orchard askew.  Pristine (with no  apples) on CG-10 broke  2" 
> diam. 
> treated support stake at ground level  and tree snapped off at graft-seems 
> like 
> CG-10 rootstock grafts are a little  brittle; several semi dwarf on M7 blew 
> over in clay-rich soil that turns to muck  with winds and rain (one tree 
> staked 
> after Isabel went over for 2d time)-will  try to pull them up and stake or 
> restake them; also several dwarf apple trees  full of fruit snapped 2" 
> support 
> stakes and went down but they appear  not to have snapped any roots.  Trees 
> with 3" support stakes (all support  stakes from Adams County nursery) 
> seemed to 
> weather storm OK.  Lost no  peach trees but fruit all over ground.
>      Clay rich soil turns to muck and with wind from  east-northeast 
> rocking 
> trees back and forth they finally go over.  Also  seems like M7 trees in 
> clay-rich soild do require staking!
> Chris Patterson SE Pa. near Lancaster 
> > _______________________________________________
> 

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