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["Ed Fackler" <ed.fackler@gmail.com>]

Clifford:

     My late friend, John Creech used M9 on MM106 a lot with excellent success.  The major difference between 106 and 111 is that 106 doesn't produce many suckers.  MM111 (under an interstem) will generate annually lots of very vigorous suckers.  

     I used it extensively my self and it was the single most productive combo we had including B9, B491, P2 and P22 on MM111.

     Hope this helps.

ed, S. Indiana, zone 6.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Clifford Cain - uk yahoo <cc_syorks@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

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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