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Jackie:
I do not know of an available apple rootstock that
will dependably tolerate this wet site. Hopefully you can improve the
planting site by installing underground drain pipes.
The 4" diameter, with 1/8"
slits, flexible black plastic pipe, that you can usually buy for 35
cents per foot, at the large farm stores, is what I would use.
Bury this pipe at least 24" deep, deeper if possible, to capture the water
above your trees and "as needed" to keep the whole area free of seepage.
There must be an open ditch or something for the captured water to flow, freely
by gravity, into.
It is good that you have recognized the seepage
problem before the trees were planted.
Sincerely, Bill Freels, Paducah,
Ky
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:14
PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] flood-tolerant apple
rootstock needed?
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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