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Questions regarding using Nanking Cherry as rootstock.

17 years ago

Hi,

I would like to use Nanking Cherry (Prunus tomentosa) as a rootstock for various fruits in the genius Prunus.

1. Can I grow all of your typical sweetcherries on it? I'm pretty sure the standards can be grown.

2. Can I grow a native cherry, such as Prunus serotina or Prunus virginiana on it?

3. Do peaches work out well-enough on it?

4. Since Nanking Cherry grows to around 10+ feet, would a cherry scion graft or a peach graft grow to about that size also; and would the rootstock be able to handle the larger diameter of the grafted variety's branches, trunk, limbs, etc.?

5. Could a multi-graft shrub be formed on a Nanking Cherry rootstock so that you have, for instance, Peaches, varieties of cherry, varieties of plum, and Nanking Cherry on the same shrub? If so, I guess you'd have to graft a different scion onto each a different root shoot?

Thanks,

Steve

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