To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [nafex] looking for a hardiness listing of peach rootstock
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:10:25 -0500
funny, I just wrote them to see if they have an Krymsk 1 for sale⦠but are
they saying they'll use Manchurian apricot for peach rootstock? My
manchurians are 15-20 feet high and the opposite of dwarfing..
~mIEKAL
On Sep 24, 2014, at 5:54 PM, Dan Nave wrote:
> Cummins nursery wrote: "We have had graft union sensitivity with first
> Krymsk 86 and now Krymsk 1 in many varieties, we always lose an inordinate
> number of trees to breakage at the time of digging. The hope has been that
> these unions would strengthen over time, which does seem to happen in the
> case of many varieties. But all in all I think we are ready to abandon the
> Krymsk 1 for apricots (and peach, but not plum), in spite of the cold
> hardiness and the dwarfing qualities. For the spring 2014 season we are
> returning to the use of Manchurian"
>
> Dan