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["Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>]

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