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Apple Tree Rootstocks
In simple language and informative graphics, tells you how to grow and harvest the freshest, highest-quality fruit right in your own backyard. Includes information on site selection, soil preparation, planting, pruning and training, pest and ...More…
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Alternative rootstocks: how will they perform?: An ...
Amazon.com — Author M. Andrew Walker Format HTML Number Of Pages 3 Publication Date 1993-12-01 Release Date 2005-07-28More…
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Recommended Rootstocks
Alabama Cooperative Extension System — All tree fruits, including citrus, are propagated onto the root system of another plant. This root system is commonly referred to as the understock or rootstock. The upper part of the grafted or budded plant that bears fruit is referred to as the ...More…
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Tolerant rootstocks.
University of California IPM — Trees with Armillaria root rot have thin canopies with yellow leaves and twig, shoot, or limb dieback. Infected roots have white rot wood decay with white to yellowish fan-shaped mycelial mats (plaques) between the bark and the wood. Dark brown ...More…
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RESISTANT ROOTSTOCKS
University of California IPM — UC Management Guidelines for Nematodes on Plum. Resistant rootstocks Ring nematodes spend their lives in soil feeding on roots. Feeding by ring nematodes, particularly on small feeder roots, predisposes trees to bacterial canker (Pseudomonas ...More…
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APPLE ROOTSTOCKS AND TREE SPACING
NC State University Coop Extension — All apple trees sold commercially are either budded or grafted trees. The selected variety or top of the tree, referred to as the scion, is grafted or budded on a rootstock of choice. The rootstock determines the relative size of the tree but ...More…
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HortFACT - Clonal Apple And Pear Rootstocks
HortNET New Zealand — Clonal rootstocks have the advantage over seedling rootstocks of uniformity, tree size control, precocity and resistance to soil borne pests and diseases. In some cases they also offer advantages in terms of improved fruit quality. The choice of ...More…
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Performance of Flamecrest peach on new clonal rootstocks
HortNET New Zealand — Golden Queen seedlings have proved to be both reliable and versatile rootstocks, but the trees produced on them have often been too large when planted on intensive planting systems, especially in districts such as Hawkes Bay. Overseas results ...More…
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Pest and disease resistance in pipfruit rootstocks
HortNET New Zealand — The natural resistances of apple and pear trees to insects and diseases have had a major impact on the New Zealand pipfruit industry. For example, in the late 19th century, the apple industry was doomed due to the devastating effect woolly apple ...More…
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Trial of rootstocks for Stella cherry
HortNET New Zealand — Twenty cherry rootstocks, with `Stella' as the scion, were planted in a trial at Clyde Research Centre in 1989. The trial was discontinued in 1994 following high tree losses due to poor drainage, but provided some information on tree size and ...More…
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Beware of Off-type Citrus Rootstocks
HortNET New Zealand — Low yields and poor tree growth often stem from poor rootstock performance. Inferior quality rootstock material in citrus plantings can result from misidentification and insufficient roguing of off-types from seedling rootstock populations in the ...More…
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Rootstocks For `Sundrop' Apricot
HortNET New Zealand — In today's tough economic times it makes sense to lower orchard costs as much as possible. One way to achieve this is to use vigour-reducing rootstocks combined with growing trees at closer spacings. The profitability of apple orchards has for ...More…