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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

Try googles of variations on "rootstock descriptions fruit flowers branching"

Some months ago I posted a website which features descriptions of the 
different
rootstocks when they have been allowed to grow w/o topwork and then they 
flower &
fruit.  Will try to find & re-post.



--- Thomas Olenio wrote:

> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I recently tasted a strange apple.  In the orchard a yound apple tree lost  
> it's scion and came up from the roots.  The owner does not recall what the  
> rootstock was.
> 
> The apple is odd.  For those who know what the old fashioned drink of  
> "raspberry vinegar" tastes like, the happle has a solid hint of that.
> 
> It is a red apple, white flesh, with a blotchy stripe pattern.  Texture is  
> odd too.  Light, cripsy.
> 
> Does anybody know which dwarf rootstock offers this apple?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
>

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