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[Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

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