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[Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>]

Thank you Ginda. I will give the folks at Cummins a call. They certainly 
have experience using M111.

Betsy

On 10/10/2016 12:42 AM, Ginda Fisher wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2016, at 11:05 PM, Elizabeth Hilborn wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I am attempting to propagate a very good apple variety I discovered at a SW 
> > Virginia homestead.
> >
> > I grafted it to 1 Bud9 dwarfing rootstock and it is healthy and vigorous. On 
> > the 3 M111 grafts I have, it is alive, but struggling. Small sample size, but 
> > I am struck by the difference.
> >
> > I found:
> > *b. Interclonal (between clones) / intraspecific*
> > Interclonal / intraspecific compatibility (/among apples/ /Ed./) is the rule 
> > rather than the exception.
> >
> > From: 
> > https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/hort494/mg/specific.grafting/compatibility.html
> >
> > Has anyone observed apple graft incompatibility?
> >
> > Is M111 known to be problematic?
> >
> > Betsy Hilborn
> > 7a NC
> A couple of years ago I grafted a seedling tree with sentimental value to M7, 
> G11, and a seedling crab apple. The season was wrong for grafting due to 
> conditions beyond my control. Nonetheless, all of the grafts took except 
> those to G11.  Mine is an even smaller sample size, perhaps. And it might 
> just be random chance. But the guy I spoke with at Cummins mentioned that M7 
> would be a good rootstock to use because it's very easy to graft to.
>
> Ginda
> __________________