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[Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>]

Wondering if anyone has experience putting Sweet Rowan Mountain Ash (that's 
an edible fruited Mountain Ash variety) onto apple rootstock.  I was offered 
some budwood for the Mountain Ash this spring, but have no Mountain Ash 
rootstock so I put it on Siberian and Columbian crabapple seedlings.  Friends 
tell me that you can graft apple onto Mountain Ash, but it seems that no one 
has tried the reverse.

Will also post an update on my personal experiences at some point.

Sarah 
zone 3
Edmonton, AB


--- On Thu, 5/19/11, Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu> wrote:

> From: Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Source for Apricot i.e. cv. 'Tom Cot' and root-stock 
> question.
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Received: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 2:46 PM
> Tomcot is available from any Dave
> Wilson retailer, for example Peaceful Valley.  Its
> probably too late this year.  Based on my experience,
> Tomcot is head and shoulders above any other apricot variety
> for reliability and quality on the east coast.
> 
> I have found Krymsk 1 to be quite dwarfing on apricots so I
> would consider that rootstock.  Raintree was at one
> point selling it in small quantity.  It was discussed
> on this list back in April.  I also have apricots on
> several other stocks and all are doing fine (peach,
> manchurian, tourinel, nemagard).
> 
> Scott z7 MD
> 
> 
> On May 19, 2011, at 1:27 AM, Steven Covacci wrote:
> 
> > Group:
> > 
> > 
> > 1. What is a source for a great apricot (self-fertile;
> hardy to 6b New Jersey)?  I'm thinking about getting
> 'Tom Cot' since that get's a lot of good reviews.
> > 
> > 
> > 2. Is there a good (long-term compatible) root-stock
> for Apricot?  I have a seedling I may use, because I
> hear that there is no true dwarfing Apricot root-stock, that
> dwarfing only occurs early on, but not enduringly.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Steve; NJ 6b/7a
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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