North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[Nutritional Solutions <btnutrition@aol.com>]

If Plan A or B don't work out (rooting cuttings taken in May or gathering 
scion wood while still dormant), another option might be to offer to prune 
the tree for the new owners the following season in exchange for scion wood 
then. This might be a nice back up plan if cuttings you take now fail.


Jeanne (Northern Utah, where, as of today, crocus are in full bloom, tulips 
not yet emerged)

 
        
Attached Message
        
                
                        
From:
                        
Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
                
                
                        
To:
                        
NAFEX Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
                
                
                        
Subject:
                        
[nafex] grafting an apple in May
                
                
                        
Date:
                        
Sun, 16 Mar 2014 13:13:23 -0400
                
        


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?