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  • From: "Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>
  • To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Apple Question - dumb
  • Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:19:45 -0400

Hello,

 

Is it possible to take a scion from an apple tree, graft it to rootstock and never see a blossom?

 

The first scion I ever collected, I grafted to a wild dwarf rootstock in 1999 and it has never produced a single blossom.  The tree is doing well, is a good size and other trees I have grafted after it have blossomed and had fruit. 

 

This makes me wonder…  If you took a scion from a water sprout, would you ever get apples?  I do not remember now what I took for a scion then, I was a newbie.

 

Looking at the tree this spring for nice fat buds that might contain flowers, and I see none (again).

 

Any thoughts?

 

Tom




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