Apricot rootstocks - zone 3
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- weeper_11 thanked Konrad..just outside of Edmonton Alberta
- weeper_11 thanked Konrad..just outside of Edmonton Alberta
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Asian Plums on Apricot Seedling Rootstock
Comments (9)Blenheims are famous for canker around here, and I wouldn't plant nor graft any Blenheims. So you could have a reservoir of canker on the stock. But I am not sure if it would be the same in your case. Over here, the Blenheims rarely every bear crops. All pluots that I have experimented on are vigorous on apricots, much more so with Apriums that they seem to take over the apricot that you gaft them to. Japanese plums (aka Asian) will also be just right on Apricots (not too vigorous as pluots or apriums would be). Actually the Asian plums were called Japanese plums, and the Japanese plums did not really originate from Japan but from China. As credit to the Japanese, they were the ones who worked hard to improve most of the plums that originally came from China, so the world has known them to be Japanese plums. Now to prevent confusion between origins from China or Japan, we simply call them Asian plums. The European plums, excepting for very few types, are usually poor growers or incompatible on my apricots. I will be experimenting with Nanking Cherry if I can do a lot of prunus cultivar grafts on it. I love its small stature. If you really want many species grafted successfully together on one tree, I would rely on using apriums as the stock or interstem. These interstems first grows upright after grafting and so easy to position and receive various grafts on a tree without them crossing over, minimizing competition and agressive pruning to keep the grafted cultivars balanced....See MoreWhat apricot to buy on what rootstock
Comments (14)Thanks to you all for all the good advice. I was leaning towards Citation until I read Someguy's comments on the wet soil. It is almost unavoidable that this tree will get considerable irrigation. So now I think Marianna 2624 might be the better choice. (Fowler Nurseries has an excellent page on apricot rootstock. http://www.fowlernurseries.com/Rootstocks.htm#Almond) If I stick with that choice then I'm left with the decision of cultivar -much easier, we are likely to love them all. I'll avoid Harcot (not a good canner, important to me). And I'll take the cultivar choices you have provided and compare them to local wisdom. Thanks again for sharing your collective experience. Two things never cease to amaze me: I) the number of choices there are once you start looking and II) the huge amount of hands-on, hard-won experience that people happily share. Best, Mark...See MoreApricot matching--pollination and rootstock queries
Comments (13)Melmoth: I have had a dozen different apricot varieties over the past 30 years, including one called Chinese. I still have a Goldcot and a Puget Gold, but expect those will be coming out soon. My advice is very simple: Get rid of the Chinese Mormon you have already planted, and, if you want two apricot trees, plant two Tomcots. All the other apricots I have planted were failures for a variety of reasons, but the net result was no apricots. In contrast, Tomcot produces for me each and every season, in late June, sometimes a smaller crop after a very late freeze, but always something worthwhile. My Tomcot trees are now nearly 20 years old, and completely healthy. They receive dormant sprays of copper, and the fruit is sprayed early with Imidan at thinning time. Plum curculio can be a problem on any apricot early in the season. In a good year, with minimal late freezing temps, my two Tomcot trees will bear over 150 pounds of beautiful, perfect apricots of very high quality. I don't really understand what is so different about Tomcot, but if science consists of repeatable results, this apricot meets the test. Tomcot is self-pollinating, so there would be no pollination concerns and the trees should end up at the same final size. Agree with fruitnut that rootstock differences seem to play a minor role, although St. Julian does grow slower initially. The trees all seem to end up at roughly the same size, and require annual pruning to keep them open and uncrowded, as well as to control vertical height. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA...See MoreRootstock For Tomcot Apricot
Comments (4)Bay Laurel has a nice analysis of the different rootstocks for apricots on the right side of their web page. I am also posting the chart from Fowler's, which says that Lovell does not like heavy soils, but I think you would have to compare both websites to see which is more like your soil. http://www.fowlernurseries.com/Rootstocks.htm Carla in Sac Here is a link that might be useful: Bay Laurel...See More- weeper_11 thanked Konrad..just outside of Edmonton Alberta
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