North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>]

If your lilacs stand on their own roots, you'll get the hybrid: same roots, 
same stems. If they stand on another rootstock, this'll probably be growth 
from the rootstock. Check for a graft union on your oldest/biggest stem/trunk.
 
Cutting and planting lilacs from suckers is easy. I did it with a fragrant 
bright white lilac last summer and the little guy came through the worst 
winter for desperately cold beginning and end in living memory just fine. I 
hope for first bloom in two more years.
 
Dave Liezen, E. WA z6
 
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> From: jerrydana5@aol.com
> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:14:49 -0400
> Subject: [NAFEX] lilac question
> 
> I have some hybrid Lilacs and there are a couple of suckers growing up 
> about a foot away. Will those suckers, if they are transplanted, grow into 
> hybrid lilacs? Or regular lilacs? Or nothing? Jerry in southern Indiana.
> 
> 
> __________________
> nafex mailing list 
> nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subscribe, unsubscribe, change your user configuration or find out more 
> about the list here:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/nafex
> NAFEX web site: http://www.nafex.org/