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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Standard trees of Northern Spy can take 12 years or more to bear.   It follows that other varieties could easily take that long.
FWIW, there was a nursery that kept a non-bearing apple that they regularly propagated.  When they were out of a variety, they would send trees of this out.  No one could complain it was the wrong variety because it never bore fruit, so who could say what it was?  The place is long gone, though there are others with the same kind of ethics around.
-Lon Rombough
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On Mar 27, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Thomas Olenio wrote:

<x-tad-bigger>Hello,</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>Is it possible to take a scion from an apple tree, graft it to rootstock and never see a blossom?</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>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. </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>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.</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>Looking at the tree this spring for nice fat buds that might contain flowers, and I see none (again).</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>Any thoughts?</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>Tom</x-tad-bigger>
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