To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Antonovka
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:50:32 -0800 (PST)
Ant rootstock & Beautiful Arcade rootstock (& a few of the cultivars grown for
fruit) grow reasonably but not exactly true from seed. So I can see if one
found a
slightly better Ant or B.A. one would want to propagate it. But I'd try
getting an
Ant which was selected for good fruits grafted to a dwarfing rootstock, for
some
precosity.
>
> > Antonovka is supposed to come true from seed ...
Thanks for the notes about starting Ant rootstocks from seeds, but I thought a
stooler might be faster, since I have the opportunity right in front of me.
And as
for cleft-grafting or otherwise top-working the tree I'm removing, that's a
worthwhile idea except in this particular location which happens to be
crowded/
overgrown already.
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