[Sca-cooks] A trick for growing period apple

[Cathy Harding]

It's called scion wood and some nurseries that  that sell trees also sell
that. The site that was mentioned here http://www.applenursery.com/ has
scion wood.  It's generally available in Feb and you graft in the spring.
(see your county extension agent for more info...)  You can also see if
there are apples in your area that you like and approach the owners of the
trees for some scion wood. (that is how we got some this year from some of
the original apple trees in the Olympia, WA area trees were about 120 years
old).

Maeve

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Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] A trick for growing period apple

Grafting sounds like a good idea.  The trees I have been considering
taking down are a nearly dead peach and a very poorly cherry, but the old
apple is staying.  Are there places to get grafting stock?  The places I
know of (live, on-line, and catalogs) assume you're buying a whole tree.
If I could find stock for varieties (period or otherwise) appropriate to
the Northeastern US, I'm sure I could learn how to do it, between
Cooperative Extension and the Ag College here at Cornell.

Sandra Kisner
sjk3 at cornell.edu
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