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[Mike Higgs <trenthillsca@gmail.com>]

Anton,

If One Green World is selling varieties that are hardy to is hardy to minus
25°F or below, why not buy a couple and get the rootstocks to sucker by
planting the graft union below ground in a medium that would encourage
suckering, say ProMix BX?  You'd have a hardy rootstock with
no compatibility issues.  You could even propagate the rootstock by
layering/stooling it.

Regards,
Mike


Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:52:35 -0600
> From: anton ptak <antonptak@gmail.com>
> Subject: [nafex] revisiting quince
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> Has anyone any success grafting quince onto OHF or other pear rootstocks?
>
> I would like to try some of the quince varieties from the germplasm
> repository, but from what I understand the commercially available quince
> rootstocks are not hardy enough for our Zone 4 site.  Hence, the search
> for another understock option . . . .
>
> I ran across a message in the archives (pasted below) from 2002 and was
> wondering if Lucky had tried what he proposed and if so, the results of
> that trial.
>