[NAFEX] Re: nafex digest, Vol 1 #7 - 15 msgs

[Terence Bradshaw <madshaw@innevi.com>]

It very well could be a factor, especially depending on the susceptibility 
of the rootstock to FB.  You can cut into the wood and look for 
pink-brownish streaks in the cambium, but even that may not reveal 
it.  Maybe take one sprout and graft it to a FB susceptible variety like 
Idared, Gala, or Paulared.  Then pump the nitrogen to it to encourage soft, 
whippy tissue and look for signs of disease.  I know this seems pretty 
complicated, but it's all I could guess at.

At 09:10 AM 5/2/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Subject: [NAFEX] fireblight in rootstock
>Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>
>
>Last year I cut down a Tompkins King tree due to fireblight. I didn't
>have time to remove the roots and now it has  ten or so nice looking
>sprouts.
>I would like to graft and stool onto this mystery rootstock (another
>story) from Southmeadow but I don't know if the fireblight that was on
>the grafted portion of the tree is a factor.
>Any opinions?
>
>Thanks much, Bob Sorenson Z4

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Terence Bradshaw
Pomona Tree Fruit Service
93 Stowe St	
Waterbury, VT 05676			
(802)244-0953
madshaw@innevi.com

The views represented are mine and mine only...

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