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  • From: Clifford Cain - uk yahoo <cc_syorks@yahoo.co.uk>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] M9 as an interstem on MM111 or MM106
  • Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:22:16 +0000

Hello
Does anyone have any experience of using M9 as an interstem on MM106 or MM111?

By way of background
I am developing a demonstration fruit garden adjacent to a river. The ground is a silty and gets wet in the winter but typically does not flood (averages once in every 12 years), though last June when it was underwater for 6 weeks in total up to 5ft deep, it was seasonally out of sync. I am looking to plant a number of trees in a variety of trained forms including the various spindle tree styles.
M9, which seems to be the chosen stock, doesn't perform well in the North of England, due to a combination of wet,wind and the stocks shallow root system. I am currently reading Apples - Botany, Production and Uses edited by DC Ferree and IJ Warrington; in the chapter on orchard planting systems written by Terrence Robinson of New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva he talks if having M9 as an interstem on MM111 or on MM106. Now I am not into commercial production so a reduction in yield is not a major constraint, though I do want fruit! My drive on this is to show the various forms and alternative methods people can use for growing fruit at home.

MM106 is my rootstock of choice as it generally performs well of all tree forms and copes with our weather.

Your comments would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Clifford Cain





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