Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pecan on hickory --> dwarfing?
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 10:30:01 -0500
Lucky
I tried to find that dwarfing Hickory with no success. It would seem to
work for me in that it would start to produce much sooner to show me what I
can get. Any place I can get scions to try as an interstem? Or seedlings?
Gordon
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From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
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Subject: [NAFEX] Pecan on hickory --> dwarfing?
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 08:27:27 -0600
At 06:23 PM 1/6/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Lucky
Why not graft the pecan to the dwarf hickory?
Well, Gordon,
That had crossed my mind, but I don't know how well that would work - I'd be
concerned that the more vigorous pecan, on top of a hickory rootstock, or
even a hardy pecan root with a 'dwarfing' hickory interstem, would 'outgrow'
the hickory, and be prone to breakover at the graft union.
Perhaps it's a misplaced concern, but some of the long-timers in the KNGA
had warned me about this phenomenon when I first got started playing with
nut trees, but I've not actually seen it.