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[nafex] Re: Grafting filberts/hazels
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Funny thing is, that I have a Henry Lauder's Walking Stick bought
from a nursery ~8 years ago. It's rootstock, a normal filbert of
some type Suckers like MAD. I'd prefer Suckers that were "walking
stick".
If I wanted to root Filbert cuttings, what time of year, etc, are
best for rooting?
Thanks,
Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6
--- In nafex@egroups.com, "dwalsh/wchase" <wchase@i...> wrote:
> Sam,
>
> I want to make the corkscrew hazel nut (of Harry Lauder's walking
stick fame).
> It's an ornamental and all the branches corkscrew up so it is hard
to get a
> straight piece and if grown from cuttings it is very bad at
suckering.
>
> You do get hazelnuts on the corkscrew hazelnut, but the squirrels
get them all.
>
> In fact, I stopped growing hazelnuts because the beaver kept
reducing them to
> stumps ... every stem was chewed off at about 16" (I had tree
guards that came up
> 16").
>
> I had a young walnut tree nearby with a low branch (about 12" off
ground) so I put
> a tree guard on the trunk and on the low branch. The beaver
reached up and the
> tree guard pushed back towards the trunk of the walnut tree and she
chewed off the
> branch at about 12"!!
>
> Luckily my orchard is two gates away from the creek so she doesn't
come after my
> apple trees.
>
> Derry
>
> Derry Walsh & Bill Chase email:wchase@i...
> Aldergrove, B. C., Canada
> phone/fax (604) 856-9316
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> : I don't know why you want to graft filberts.
> : They seem to root very readily from cuttings here in Oregon.
> : Sam