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[Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

If you have a friendly neighbour with a known good cultivar, you can cut 
a budstick from it later this summer and bud your rootstock. It's not 
that difficult. I was successful years ago with apples and plums by 
following the instructions in R. J. Garner's "The Grafter's Handbook." 
The stock should be maintained in vigourous growth.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada


On 08/05/2011 7:50 PM, Jay Cutts wrote:
> I got a grafted peach in this spring. The top of it died, as it seemed
> to have some girdling above the graft.
>
> There is a shoot coming up from below the graft and it's quite pretty -
> fine, green leaves on a purple stalk. Would any of the standard
> rootstocks produce fruit worth having?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jay
>
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