Re: [nafex] Jay Cutts's question

Interesting. How many years have passed until the plant was again killed
down to the ground, to later re-sprout? I think you should great an
enclosure for one so that it will fruit.



On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Jay Cutts <orders@cuttsreviews.com> wrote:

> When I used grafted trees, the entire top, including the part above ground
> but below the graft, was killed by cold. The only reason the plant survived
> was that new shoots came up from the roots.
>
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>
> Jay
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> On 1/8/2017 9:07 AM, Alan Haigh wrote:
>
>> "why would you want to kill the original rootstock?'
>>
>> The conversation was started by the suggestion that own rooted trees are
>> hardier against cold than grafted ones, for one thing. Also, if you want
>> to make use of suckers, this might assure that the suckers were trees of
>> the grafted variety.
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