Maybe it would be good to choose a rootstock
that comes fairly uniform from seed. There is one used for the
north in the US, 'Beautiful Arcade'. I have been buying a seedling
rootstock called 'Micromalus". It is thought to be a cross of M.
spectibilis and baccata. It grows about 10 ft tall and wide, and is much
less tasty to field mice than most apples. The nice thing is that if you
could locate a source of seeds, you would have much less trouble with
quarantine, as there would be no dirty roots to worry about. One warning
about Micromalus, I find that about 10-20% of the Micromalus seedlings have
deformed leaves, and those trees never grow. I don't know if
it is a virus, better find that out, or if there is some kind of genetic
problem with a certain % of seedlings, like for example with seedlings of
Citrus trifoliata, 'Flying Dragon'. There is very little info on the Net
about Micromalus, but where you can find such info, I would ask the writer
about this problem with some of the seedlings. Mine came from Lawyers
Nursery, they might know about the problem.
Is anyone else familiar with micromalus?
Have you noticed the plants with the deformed leaves and poor vigor?
They are quite different from the healthy seedlings. Donna
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