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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

Mazzard rootstock is readily available.  I doubt if Evans rootstock
is readily available. I read that Evans is a short-lived tree.  Don't
know if Evans grows true from seed.

---- Original Message ----
From: nave1@comcast.net
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Ernest's Evans cherries
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:51:43 -0500

>Why would one bother to graft Evans since it it is hearty on it's own
>
>roots and supposedly grows true from seed?...
>
>Dan
>
>Douglas Woodard wrote:
>> Ernest, grafted trees from commercial sources would probably be
>grafted 
>> on Mazzard or Mahaleb. If I remember rightly you are in a
>particularly 
>> cold area of northern Minnesota. I would expect your temperatures
>to 
>> damage (in a warm winter unless with heavy snow cover) or kill
>either 
>> Mazzard or Mahaleb. Mahaleb is fussy about good drainage, likes a
>coarse 
>> subsoil. Any hardy rootstock readily available cheap to a comercial
>
>> nursery is likely to suffer from compatibility problems. The only 
>> rootstock I can think of that *might* suit is Prunus X Dropmoreana,
>
>> Frank Skinner's creation. Forty years ago East Malling did some
>work 
>> with it as a stock for sweet cherries, and from what I recall
>reading, 
>> some clones of it were compatible with sweets and some were not.
>>
>> If your sources were what I would consider fully competent and 
>> honourable, they would have told you what rootstock they were using
>- 
>> unless maybe they were afraid their competition would find out
>about it.
>> This kind of competitive pressure is one of the curses of the
>nursry 
>> business. It's extremely hard to know if your supplier is
>understandably 
>> secretive, or crooked or irresponsible.
>>
>> Doug Woodard
>> St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
>>
>>
>> Ernest Plutko wrote:
>>   
>>> "Before" means before I buried grafts.  I was not doing a research
>>> study.  I was just trying to get trees to live through winters. I
>>> bought trees from several sources. Local and mail-order. It is
>>> possible burying graft is just protecting graft from winter cold. 
>>> This fall I will probe around buried trunks to see if roots have
>>> grown from Evans trunks.  I'll look up Evans own-root sources and
>let
>>> you know.
>>>
>>> ---- Original Message ----
>>> From: murphman108@msn.com
>>> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>>> Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Ernest's Evans cherries
>>> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:14:46 +0000
>>>
>>>     
>>>> Hello Ernest;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am interested in your Evans story. The trees that you buried
>the
>>>> graft union were better 'than before'. What does 'than before'
>mean?
>>>> Did you plant some at the same time from the same batch without
>>>> burying the graft? Same plant source? This is a decent finding on
>>>> your part. Please elaborate. Also, who is the 'own root' Evans
>cherry
>>>> tree source?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Murph
>>>>
>>>>       
>>   
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