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[david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>]

If you may not or cannot get there before May, why not try cutting some twigs 
and rooting them? I'd cut pieces about 12 inches long, wrap them in wet paper 
towel and seal in zip lock for transport. ASAP strip the leaves/buds from the 
lower half or more, score once with a knife, say half the length, before 
dipping in rooting powder or gel/solution. Plant deep in a sheltered spot and 
keep soil moist. I'd take half a dozen, to tip the odds in your favor. 

Once you have one growing well, in a couple years you can take a scion and 
graft onto whatever you'd like. Then you can toss or sell the young standard.

BTW, I haven't tried this with apple, but made it work with Japanese maple. 
No doubt someone with greater direct experience with rooting apple cuttings 
can improve on my suggestion. 

Dave Liezen, E WA, where lilac buds are swelling and tulip leaves are several 
inches tall at last


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> From: list@ginda.us
> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 13:13:23 -0400
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [nafex] grafting an apple in May
>
> My husband's uncle died this winter, leaving his "house in the country" 
> (the Catskills) to my husband. I would like to try to rescue a seedling 
> apple tree that the uncle planted as a youth. It has no commercial value, 
> since the fruits all ripen at different times, and only keep for a few 
> hours after dropping from the tree. But the fruits (when fresh) are very 
> tasty, and the tree has sentimental value.
>
> It's a large mature tree, and there's no way I can possibly dig it up, and 
> no way to transport it, and no place to plant it, even if I miraculously 
> did dig it up. I would like to retrieve some of it and graft it onto an 
> apple tree in my back yard. But the timing is awkward (I think.) The will 
> hasn't been probated, and once it is probated, my husband plans to sell the 
> property. The only time I know I can get there and have legal access is in 
> May. On the other hand, I suppose I could remove as much of the tree as I 
> want in May.
>
> Any advice?
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