Cloning Fruit Trees

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 8:59 pm

HAHAHA I think there might be a whole colony in there!

muffin · Post by **muffin** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:12 pm

Should work, I have done it before. Will be doing our Wolf River apple and Snow apple any day now, before the trees die of old age...at 100+ years could be any day!

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:21 pm

shoot you have a SNOW APPLE! I want some! we had an ancient snow apple tree at the old place. I tried to clone it in a very unscientific to say the least kinda way. it didnt work. I would love to buy some from you! care to ship them?? ill pay!!! I know of 1 orchard near by that has some in there parent orchard, been there for ohhh 100 years or so i think he said. but they dont propagate them as there is no demand... Sad! Windovers Nursery outside of petrolia.

its funny... I just thought that it was the only apple tree besides the wild ones in the bush well over a kilometer away. I wonder how it was fertilized. maybe they are self fruitful? hmmmm....

muffin · Post by **muffin** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 7:30 am

keep in touch, when some are ready we will have a few available

JP* · Post by JP* » Thu May 12, 2016 2:35 pm

Bringing this one back up...

Anyone able to supply me with a Pear cutting?

2013 was a cold winter my way. The mice ate any bark below the snow line off of fruit trees and young maple trees. We lost several decorative crab apples and a pear tree.

The pear tree rootsock has sent up a new trunk but it has thorns. I suspect it may be a quince. If anyone has any pear cuttings they can send my way, I would sincerely appreciate it.

I could swap cuttings of Canadian Plum.

Jesse

JP* · Post by JP* » Tue May 17, 2016 10:16 am

The nursery (Hardy Fruit Trees) where I bought the two Pear and Plum whips is sending me some pear tree cuttings to graft onto my rootstock.

I chose this nursery as their climate should be closer to mine than the Niagara area nurseries. The whips are leafing out, now I just need to wait 5 years for fruit :)

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Tue May 17, 2016 10:27 am

Thats awesome JP!

Some of my cuttings are working out pretty well but I may have killed a bunch. a lot of the dirt n cups went moldy so I sprayed them with a very diluted vinegar solution which killed the mold but also may have killed some of the trees. can you tell im a rookie! I also added goji berry which are doing great and Saskatoon berry which dont look so well. I cant wait until it warms up enough to leave these outside instead of under lights!

JP* · Post by JP* » Tue May 17, 2016 10:50 am

My parents had several Saskatoon berry trees, unfortunately we never tasted a berry. The birds would have them all ate up before they ripened and then later on they caught some rust from the Hawthorne trees. The rust didn't stop the birds though.

My domestic gooseberry cuttings are starting to put out roots. They have been in water for about two weeks now.

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Tue May 17, 2016 6:50 pm

Gawd, did you root a Goji cutting?

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Tue May 17, 2016 8:31 pm

Robbie wrote:QR_BBPOST Gawd, did you root a Goji cutting?

yup. 3 of them, they seem to be doing great!