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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

That’s interesting. It’s my favorite apple of the ones I’ve eaten grown 
locally. And I would be cutting the wood from another tree in my yard, and 
just grafting to the one new rootstock, so not a high-risk endeavor. But that 
sounds plausible, as I’ve had poor long-term viability of apples I’ve grafted 
it too, including some native seedling crab apples.  Like, the graft takes 
fine, but a year or 4 later the whole tree dies. 

Ginda

> On May 5, 2020, at 11:30 AM, Idell Weydemeyer <iwgarden@earthlink.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> There was big discussion in the Santa Rosa CA area about how ashmead's 
> kernel apple scions almost always has apple virus so we do not bring it to 
> our scion exchanges-- on a tree by itself it is ok but can infect all the 
> rest of the grafts in a mixed tree.
> 
> Not sure how it is elsewhere.
> 
> Idell Weydemeyer Zone 9b
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nafex <nafex-bounces+iwgarden=earthlink.net@lists.ibiblio.org> On 
> Behalf Of Ginda Fisher
> Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 8:53 AM
> To: NAFEX Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [nafex] apricot gummosis and apple tree rootstock
> 
> Well, I had an apricot tree for several years. Didn’t get much fruit, 
> because the squirrels like them green, but it was fun. Then it died of 
> gummosis. I replaced it with another apricot, which has been doing okay. 
> Until yesterday, when I noticed that there’s a LOT of gum in the ground 
> next to its trunk.
> 
> So… should I buy one of Cummins’s Orchards reduced-price apple rootstocks 
> and graft something I like to it? I’d probably graft Ashmead’s Kernal, 
> because I have some on a tree in a crappy, not-enough-sun part of the yard, 
> and this tree is in one of the best spots.
> 
> If I do, any recommendations? Looking for something semi-dwarf. It needs to 
> be large enough that eventually a deer won’t eat the whole thing, but my 
> Jonathan on M111 in the front yard would be too large for this spot.
> 
> Cummins has:
> B9, G11, G41, G210, G202, G969, G890, and B118 in stock. just thinning that 
> by size, G210, G202, G969 might be suitable. I’m thinking G210 looks too 
> good to be true, so it probably has some problem I’m not aware of. Anyone 
> tried it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ginda Fisher
> eastern MA, zone 6
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