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  • From: Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Bud Grafting Height
  • Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:21:56 -0400

Sarah, that Nova Scotia nursery may have been concerned mostly with the convenience of the people doing the budding, especially as it affects their productivity. It may be that most of their clientele (if in Nova Scotia, especially if commercial growers in the Annapolis Valley) is not much concerned with hardiness.

Also, if the trees concerned were apples on dwarfing rootstocks, they would want to avoid scion rooting. On the other hand if you are propagating on "standard" sized stocks probably you don't care about scion rooting or you may prefer it.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, canada


Sarah Kehler Ewing wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone would care to share their insight into the reason they graft at a chosen height.
When I took my grafting classes, we bud grafted just above the original level of the dirt so that the graft union would be just above the ground when the rootstock was planted out in the field. However, I've bought fruit trees from a nursery in Nova Scotia and their trees were budded a good 8" up the trunk!
Thanks,

Sarah
zone 3 (can be -40F with no snow cover)
Edmonton, AB




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