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["Jackie Jameson" <jacqueline.jameson@gmail.com>]

Hi -

I'm also interested in flood tolerance in apple / rootstock.

I want to plant a small orchard on a hillside, not a floodplain.  However, this hillside is covered with seeps and is constantly wet.

Jackie

On 1/30/07, tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com> wrote:

I don't think I've posted much (tanis cuff/ tanistanis hotmail same as tanisgrif
yahoo) about the tree proper.  It is owned by some else, so I felt the primary task
was to collect all the info I could about propagating & possibly patenting it, so I
could tell owner all options available & most practical methods, and probable
time-line.  Also, publicizing too much about the tree starts the time-window of when
the patenting process must start.

Tree might be naturally dwarfing, but that needs to be trialed.  History strongly
suggests it is an own-root chance seedling.  It produces crops of fair-to-nice fruit
in a marshy region where other apple trees hardly flower.  This combo of phenomonal
roots AND good fruit will have to be tested, to prove whether it is actually a
chance seedling, not someone's long-lost topwork.  Also note this is in s.WI-- z4
more realisticly than z5-- which beats the winter hardiness of other flood-tol
rootstocks (yes?).




--- nbeaureg wrote:

>
> flood tolerance is a great quality, and should be very salable.
> why?
> because it is Usually associated with several other very desirable qualities.
>
> compaction tolerance and low O2 tolerance.
>
> i don't know the current market for rootstocks though.
>
> has the vigor & size of this tree been discussed?
>
> zone 5
> w-mass
>
> ncb
>
>
>
> Quoting tanis cuff <tanistanis@hotmail.com>:
>
> > Please & thanks for your views of the current need or market demand for a
> > very flood-tolerant apple rootstock.
> >
>





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