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  • From: Lee Reich <leeareich@gmail.com>
  • To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] revisiting interstem
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:10:30 -0500

Nobody has fully explained how dwarfing rootstocks or interstems exert their
effect.

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On Jan 28, 2013, at 3:27 PM, tanis cuff wrote:

>
> Please correct this if wrong. If I remember my botany, some plant
> nutrients move upwards in the interior part of the stem, while others move
> downwards in the cambium just under the bark. Both have an effect on the
> dwarfing of a graft. If you switch the topwork & rootstock cultivars of an
> interstem combo, you are asking the 'assembly line' to run in the opposite
> direction. I would like to see side-by-side comparisons, before relying on
> doing many for expected production.
>
> tc, s.WI, 0 F one day, 0 C the next
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:08:52 -0600
>> From: antonptak@gmail.com
>> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>> Subject: Re: [nafex] revisiting quince - compatibility if reverse scion
>> and rootstock
>>
>> One more question on this - I find references to using OHF interstems on
>> quince to increase compatibility with some pear cultivars. If
>> compatibility works in one direction, should it not also work in the
>> reverse? i.e. if OHF pear interstems on quince are compatible, would
>> not quince grafted onto OHF, or is there some horicultural aspect of
>> compatibility that does not necessarily permit someone to draw that
>> conclusion? Alternatively, anyone's personal experience regarding this
>> would be also be quite interesting.
>>
>> It would also be interesting to hear of this concept applied to other
>> species as well.
>>
>> Anton Ptak
>> Zone 4a W. Wisc
>>
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