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[Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>]

Bob,

I was referring to the ultimate tree size when I used "standard".  It's 
usually 'Lovell' or 'Nemaguard', but includes a few on 'Halford' and some 
own-rooted trees that are not genetic dwarfs.

Did you see leaf curling associated with any of the dwarf peach stocks you 
used?

Anton

-----Original Message-----
>From: ROBERT W   JUDY A HARTMAN <hartmansfruit@msn.com>
>Sent: Oct 6, 2008 6:15 PM
>To: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>, North American Fruit Explorers 
><nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] disease and dwarfed peaches
>
>Anton,
>
>I haven't grafted peach onto Citation but I have grafted onto St Julian A.  
>I gave up grafting onto St Julian A because of problems.  The peach trees 
>are doing great on Pumiselect.  I have noticed a little problem on the two I 
>have on Krymsk 1.  I have more budded in on Krymsk 1 that I did this summer. 
> Two is too small a number to make a judgement on it.  When you say standard 
>stock are you talking about just any peach seedling or ones like Lovell?  
>The one thing I don't like about Pumiselect is that it has a brittle shank.  
>I had a couple break off well below the graft union in a strong wind last 
>fall before the leaves had fallen.
>
>Bob
>Western Washington
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Anton Callaway<mailto:marillen@earthlink.net> 
>  To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org<mailto:nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> 
>  Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 6:30 PM
>  Subject: [NAFEX] disease and dwarfed peaches
>
>
>  I've noticed over the years that all the peaches I have on Citation 
> rootstock look relatively sick compared to those on standard stock.  They 
> typically have poor color in the leaves, not dark green and show epinasty 
> (leaf rolling) and increased bacterial spot damage.  The effect is most 
> extreme late in the season.
>
>  At first I blamed it on the scion cultivar.  My first peach dwarfed on 
> Citation was George IV.  I've never grown such a sickly tree before, though 
> the peaches were good.  Now I've got more cultivars, including one with a 
> standard comparison, Indian Blood Free.  IBF is rather susceptible to 
> bacterial spot anyway, but the other symptoms don't show on the standard 
> stock.
>
>  Have others seen similar effects of dwarfing rootstocks on peaches?  
>
>  My genetic dwarfs are all very healthy, so it doesn't appear to be the 
> dwarfing per se.  However, another contributor with a good collection of 
> peaches has reported similar effects from PumiSelect. 
>
>  Anton
>  Zone 8
>  Fruit season over, just enjoying the canned pears, preserves, etc.
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