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  • From: Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Myrobalan roots
  • Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:09:03 -0800 (PST)

Anyone have experience growing peach, apricot, cherries on
Myrobalan roots?
Eric, Siloam Orchards, Uxbridge
Ontario

Hi Eric,

I have personally grafted all sorts of combinations that I later found out
are not recommended; your particular combination I admit to having no actual
experience with. But I did find and copy this information from the Ontario
Government Ministry of Agriculture's Apricot Fact Sheet:

Myrobalan Plum Seedling — These are not normally recommended for use with
apricots for several reasons. The graft union between apricot and myrobalan
plum (Prunus cerasifera) is weak and may break in a strong wind. Slow decline
of apricot trees on Myrobalan seedling rootstock has also been reported.
Apricot trees on Myrobalan seedling normally come into bearing later than
trees on apricot seedling. Myrobalan seedling rootstock is only recommended
for areas where drainage is imperfect and apricot seedling will not perform
well.

What have you used up to this point for rootstocks to graft Peaches, Apricots
and Cherries too? I'm looking for a suitable Northern hardy rootstock for
grafting pit fruits as well. The only thing I can come up with is Evan's
cherry seedlings as the pits are free for me.

The Ontario government's online Fact Sheets are so full of varietal
information as well as rootstock recommendations that I have downloaded all
their fruit tree fact sheets to my desktop for easy reference. They don't
mention Myrobalan rootstocks in the cherry and peach/nectarine sheets.

Sarah
Zone 3b, Edmonton, AB


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