Back to the dwarf peach, I have tried a number of rootstocks and most of the<x-tad-bigger>"The right to life is the source of all rights--and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave."
stock that produced a significant dwarf did not produce a long lived tree.
You are right that to prune a tree to maintain a "dwarf" size means that you
remove a lot of fruiting wood, but any dwarf tree produces less than a full
size tree. So, in the "crap-shoot" I would prefer a tree pruned to provide the
size I want and live much longer, than to put it on a rootstock with a known
short life.
Ed Mashburn
Central PA
Zone 5A
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