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keef

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Cherries
« on: July 08, 2006, 13:10:46 »
Does anyone know if you can grow a Cherry tree from a sucker? Or are they like apple tree's i.e. you need to graft onto a rootstock etc...

Also - what about plum trees?
Straight outt'a compton - West Berkshire.

Please excuse my spelling, i am an engineer

jennym

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Re: Cherries
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2006, 17:41:00 »
You won't get the same cherry or plum if you manage to get a sucker up and growing elsewhere, as it will have usually sprouted from the rootstock. So, what you will get is a tree that is good for rootstock, but probably won't bear a lot of fruit. Ok to use for a bit of hedging maybe.
What you could do, is grow the rootstock for a year, then take cuttings from the top part of your tree, and try to graft the top cutting onto the rootstock you've grown.

 

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