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  • From: david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>
  • To: Nat'l Ass'n of Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fwd: Sweet Cherry Rootstocks: Zaiger & Gisella-6
  • Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:02:28 +0000


Raintree offers some of their cherry trees on Zaiger rootstock - quite
dwarfing, it would seem.
Dave Liezen
> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:53:44 -0500
> From: alandhaigh@gmail.com
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] Fwd: Sweet Cherry Rootstocks: Zaiger & Gisella-6
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 11:52 AM
> Subject: Sweet Cherry Rootstocks: Zaiger & Gisella-6
> To: nafex-request@lists.ibiblio.org
>
>
> I've never heard of Zaiger rootstocks of any kind- I think they're in the
> business of breeding fruit trees, not root stocks, but maybe they're
> branching (rooting) out.
>
> G6 is not a dwarfing, but more a semi-standard root sock, supposedly
> reaching about 65% vigor of Mazzard. Lapins can be a small cherry on this
> stock if allowed to fruit early and in fact can runt out from over
> production. Lapins is an over-productive cherry so you have to hand thin it
> when it comes into production. Ranier is more vigorous than Lapins (and
> produces clusters of much fewer and larger cherries), if that is in fact
> what you have- Zaiger has produced some variations of Ranier to get higher
> quality so I'm suspicious the tree might be one of these.
>
> Why on earth would you consider leaving a cherry unpruned?- they're terribly
> rank growers when left to their own whim. Click the following and you may
> get some idea of what I'm talking about.
>
>
> http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pdf/pnw/pnw543.pdf
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