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["Pete Tallman" <pete_tallman@hotmail.com>]

In the Fall 2006 Pomona, Paul Schwabe asked about experience with Ottawa 3 
rootstock for apples. I have a few trees. As purchased as a stoolbed 
rootstock, its sparse roots look like they'll never make it. Benchgrafting 
on raw rootstock might not be the best approach. I budded in August after 
the rootstock was established from the spring planting. Now, 14 years later, 
trees are quite nicely behaved, growing on 7-ft-high wire trellis, 
relatively easy to maintain. This is an arid area, and trees are treated to 
drip irrigation. I can't speak for the hardiness.

Pete Tallman
Longmont, CO

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