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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

> My plums on P americana grow as large as and are faster growing than my 
> standard apples, and real thorny to prune.


Oh, I really didn't want to hear that!


> My veeeeeeeeeery best rootstock so far for my long-season zone 3 area (and 
> I've tried them all) has been the Bud-118/Bud-9 interstem.


I had a hard time finding the apple varieties I wanted on a dwarfing 
interstem, but I ended up buying from Adams County Nursery in 
Pennsylvania. They're M-9/EMLA111 interstem and, so far, they look 
really good. Of course, they've only been in the ground for a year and a 
quarter, but they're very sturdy trees and still don't seem to be trying 
to grow too tall. They even bloomed this year, though the freeze got the 
blossoms. But one of them bloomed a bit afterwards, and I left four 
apples on the tree.

I would definitely go with a dwarfing interstem again, but the selection 
seems to be poor on this sort of rootstock.

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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