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Apple Scion Wood

17 years ago

Hi,

I am wanting to try my hand at grafting. I have two old Apple trees which I am wanting to use. Where would I find the Apple Scion wood. I have Red and Yellow Delicious and would like other types of apples.

Thanks

Jenny

Comments (11)

  • 17 years ago

    There are a number of places that supply scion wood. I recommend
    http://www.maplevalleyorchards.com/

  • 17 years ago

    Kansasfruiter, many folks on Gardenweb exchange scion wood, plants, bulbs and seeds on an equal basis. You could write a trade list in your profile of the varieties of trees you have available. Those two apples you have are old standards. Folks may have more interest in the other fruit trees you are growing. You should also enable email through Gardenweb. It could be different from your personal ISP email. Dormant scions last a long time stored in the refrigerator.

  • 17 years ago

    pad1,
    What a great site! It is exactly what I was looking for. Ace,as I am a novice, all of my fruit trees are "old" varieties. I doubt that I have anything that anyone would want. Thanks for the tip for the ISP email. I will fix it tomorrow and put up a list.
    Thanks
    Jenny

  • 17 years ago

    kansasfruiter, I am growing old the old standards as well. Yellow Delicious, Red Delicious, Macintosh, Staymen Winesap, Johnathan. What I mean by old standard is these are the apples everyone grew 50-75 years ago. Yesterday I saddle grafted onto the Johnathan a Pomme Gris and Cox Orange Pippin. I am currently using my regular email and home address through Garden web. But not long enough to say I am sure everyone will have no problems. Folks that I have exchanged scions with have been sincere and generous. I have added a dozen fig varieties this season as well as well 2 dozen tree fruit cultivars. It is very exciting trying out and propagating new varieties for little cost.

  • 17 years ago

    Thanks so much Ace. I am excited try my hand at grafting!
    Jenny

  • 17 years ago

    There is really nothing unique about getting scion wood. For specific or unusual varieties, it may take some looking around. But, you can also look around the area where you live and find plenty of apple trees. If you find any of them are particularly attractive (fruit that is), just ask the owner if you can trim a little scion wood from them--it will never be missed, and you'll know it is a variety that will perform in your climate.

  • 17 years ago

    Jenny - my wife and I have an orchard in Johnson County KS and we have over 250 apple types. We also bench graft and sell scion wood - check out Wagonwheelorchard.com to see who we are and please check out the blog link for up to date info. I like to grow disease resistant heirlooms and I'm creating a Kansas Apple preservation orchard. I've been researching and locating old Kansas varieties for the past 10 years.

    Here is a link that might be useful: Wagon Wheel Orchard

  • 17 years ago

    WWO-
    What a nice website- very envious of anyone who gets to visit your farm- needless to say, nothing like that anywhere near NYC- the pick your own farms around here grow the same tired old macintosh/empire etc apples.
    Very cute kids too. in the unlikely event im ever in your neck of the woods, will be sure to get in touch.
    best. gerry

  • 17 years ago

    Kansasaple: if you are interested in an old/rather tall apple tree here in our town in north-central KS I might be able to supply some scions. My guess is that it has very good scab and CAR resistance in that it, like my trees lives in a sea of cedars. this year I plan to watch it closely for disease symptoms and see how it responds. Last year it bore fruit, no flowers this year. My wife liked the apples so much she talked me into attempting grafting for the 1st time. I missed the W&T window but have G11 liners in the ground waiting for t-buds. If it all fails maybe I'll ask you to bench graft some for me. I don't remember if I took any fruit pictures but if I did I'll post them later. Oh yes, the fruit is definitely not immune to sooty blotch or flyspeck.

    Michael

  • 17 years ago

    Thanks Gerry - hope you can make it. We would also like to visit your area and check out how some of the larger commercial orchards operate. We've have nothing like that around here since World War II. Our motto is "Variety is our Specialty" I'm hoping to have more than 500 varieties in our preservation orchard at some point - (we're around 350 now). Have you ever checked out Apple Source? We had them ship us fruit so we could determine what we would like to grow for ourselves.

  • 17 years ago

    Kansasfruiter - were you wanting to top-work your existing trees with other varieties or graft completely new ones?