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[rob hamilton <lostman_amiga@yahoo.com>]

Yes, I guess you are right. It would be nice to have a page to give people at least a dirrection to explore, but there would be so many disclamers and medigating circustances, it may take a full book to expliane everything. I guess that is why there is nothing like this already.  :-/

Robert

Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu> wrote:
>  At 08:40 AM 1/15/2007, Rob Hamilton wrote:
> >I wonder if it would be a good thing to have a graft
> >compatability chart on our website for various fruits.
> >It seems like this could easily be constructed with
> >the help of our fruit consultants.
> >This chart would naturally include any compatiblility
> >issues such as long term over/under growth or long
> >term incompatibility.
>
> Rob,
> It's an idea, and perhaps one that merits undertaking, but I
>  foresee 
> some pitfalls along the way -
> 1.) "Mileage may vary" from one area of the country/world to another; 
> for example, some of the OHxF clonal rootstocks that may work well in 
> the PNW are worthless for growers in TX and the Deep South.
> 2.) What effect might latent viruses/mycoplasma, etc. - in either the 
> scion or rootstock - have on intergeneric  graft 
> compatibilities?  And how might we determine whether a particular 
> scion or rootstock plant is infected?
> 3.) Some of this information is purely anecdotal, with no hard 
> science behind it; it may be true, but not proven.   Case in point - 
> there's a hickory cultivar, "Cody Cox", which all my KY contacts 
> swear is not compatible with pecan, and will only graft onto true 
> hickories - but Gerald Gardner in MO, says it works just fine for him 
> on pecan.
>
> Lucky
>
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