anyone try this with fruit tree.
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anyone try to get fruit trees to root off a branch, I try it a few years back with no luck , just cut a branch off a apple tree and dip it in some stuff that supposed to help them root
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Re: anyone try this with fruit tree.
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My understanding on apples, pear and other pome fruits is that they can be hard to root by cuttings. I do know rootstocks are propagated by stooling. http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/apple72.htmlYou might trying to mimic those conditions by heading back a limb then air layering the new growth.
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Re: anyone try this with fruit tree.
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Hazelnuts are commercially produced by stooling. As warrior says most rootstocks are also stooled so as to be genetically identical.
Even if you were to be successful in getting a cutting to root it may not develop a good root system. I do know that elderberries and figs are readily rooted from cuttings. Probably others as well. In Ecuador I knew an old retired Navy vet that planted a whole orchard of sweet limes from cuttings. I was surprised at that.
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Re: anyone try this with fruit tree.
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Most Apple trees, and lots of other fruit trees, are grafted to hardy root stock. You could graft the cuttings on to crabapple seedlings. Even if you get a cutting to grow, it won’t be hardy enough for Michigan most likely.
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Re: anyone try this with fruit tree.
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Stooling is also called layering. I make 100's if not 1000's of layered propagations each year. Mostly with blackberries, raspberries, roses, and more recently blueberries & figs. You can even layer above ground, aka air layering, using root pods or some other container to hold soil around the branch. Remember Propagation like this is advanced gardening. It takes years to perfect techniques to be consistently successful. I advise folks to make more propagations than what you think you will need. This increases your chances of at least a few being successful. When taking cuttings, I always advise using a rooting hormone. Its cheap and helps increase the possibility of roots forming.
I have had luck in the past pruning my pear trees and putting the cuttings in a 5 gallon bucket of moist peat moss. I then got busy and set the bucket in a dark location inside my barn. As a matter of fact, I forgot about it for a month or so. When I remembered it, there pear cuttings all had sprouted copious amounts of roots.
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Quince understocks are widely used to produce semi-dwarf pears.
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Rootstocks are selected for their in ground attributes or inferred traits to the scion.
Dwarfing is just one trait, suitability to certain soil types or resistance to endemic disease.
For instance while quince dwarfs pears it has poor to no resistance to firelight.
There are also some known incompatibleties between some cultivars and some rootstocks.
In citrus flying dragon trifoliate not only dwarfs but adds a small degree of cold tolerance. I don't think any rootstock is capable of imparting fireblight resistance to the above graft-union cultivar. If there is such a rootstock it would greatly surprise me. BTW, if anybody needs some quince rootstock I can supply cuttings this time of year that can be rooted with a mist bench or other good softwood cutting rooting situation. I get lots of quince suckers coming from one of the standard quince rootstocks that my quince trees are grafted to.
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