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  • From: david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] nafex Digest, Vol 134, Issue 8
  • Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:56:35 +0000

Yet another possibility would be to take a leaf and chip-bud late this
summer. Look it up if you aren't familiar with the procedure. I've done it
with about 50% success.

Dave Liezen

> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> From: btnutrition@aol.com
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:38:54 -0400
> Subject: Re: [nafex] nafex Digest, Vol 134, Issue 8
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> 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.
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> Jeanne (Northern Utah, where, as of today, crocus are in full bloom, tulips
> not yet emerged)
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> [nafex] grafting an apple in May
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> Date:
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> Sun, 16 Mar 2014 13:13:23 -0400
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> 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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