I think the main benefit from having a hardy understock for a tender tree > is induction of early dormancy of the cultivar by the rootstock.I have never seen a rootstock induce early growth in its grafted cultivar and so perhaps falsely assumed that it would not induce early dormancy. I will check this this fall on my topgrafted peaches on p americana compared to those on maheleb.
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