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  • From: "Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Am-Jap plums in Nebraska
  • Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 23:01:51 -0500

Bill,
You're a couple years ahead of me, so I can learn from your experience. I had a good take of Waneta and La Crescent last year, and this spring La Crescent snapped off. Lucky was right about rapid growth on bark grafts. So I grafted from the snapped branch and the Waneta and some South Dakota I got, onto native plum seedlings. David Ulmer repeatedly said that myrobalan was a great rootstock for the hybrids, but I don't have any, and I am pretty doubtful about how well they are going to stick on the native plums. They take just fine, but if they are going to show such vigor, I might have more branches snap off. I might have to play some other kind of trick like putting them on peach and getting them to go on their own roots. The Kaga and Superior grafts haven't really grown, so I can't say much about them. both are topgrafted onto other trees, Kaga on a myrobalan(which is on St. Julian A, no roots of it's own to snitch) and Superior on a peach. I tried to save some Myrobalan pits from last years' crop, but can't figure out where the saved ones went, and all the pits I can find under the trees are no good, presumably damaged or stunted by curculio larvae? Donna




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