They are about 100 miles from me and I have never heard of them. They are shown as a retail nursery and show no sign of doing their own propagating or grafting. The quality of their material will depend on who their suppliers are and how well they maintain and ship the stock. Al

Thanks very much Al.

It looks like they get their stuff from Dave Wilson Nursery, which I think is a pretty good one?

As to how well they take care of things, well, I might just not find that out without trying!

Thanks again,

Mark

I read about them, and they are basically a husband and wife team that are running their business in a pretty promising manner so I decided to take a chance and order a Tomcot ap. on myro rootstock from them. The only thing that bothered me is that they didn't ask on order form when I'd like it shipped. That and the almost $50 price tag with the $22 in shipping and handling, but hey it's a CA nursery- high overhead. I hardly ever pay more than $10 wholesale per tree but no ones selling this one wholesale that I could find.

Harvest-

Could you get the rootstock separate and just graft a tomcot on it? I've got 3 Tomcot trees here, but they were from Raintree. I'd happily dig them up and ship them to you for $72!!! :) Hoping for fruit next spring...

Plan on taking extreme measures to protect the flowers/fruit.

I'll give them a try too, then, Tomcot on Myro or Marianna. I would rather go with Myro since it's likely to have wet feet, but I promised DW I'd try to keep the size down and Marianna, as I understand it, would make that a little easier.

As always, I'm open to comments, suggestions, and even the occassional good-humored insult ...

:-)M

I recall some people here ordering from them in the past and it working fine. I have never had to order from them because Bay Laurel carries almost everything they do and if memory serves is cheaper. Also you can special order about any Dave Wilson item through Bay Laurel if you get the order in by the SOFT deadline (mid-November usually).

Scott

Thing is, I'm less than an hour from NYC, so I live in a different economy than some of you. Dumb labor routinely goes for up to $38 dollars an hour here by a lot of the landscape Co.s. Insurance, property taxes, bureaucratic fees, home prices and everything else is insane. So even for me, a humble artisan fruit tree care-taker, one purchase of $50 for a tree I've been wanting isn't too bad. Still I really need to start doing some summer stonefruit grafting.

Thank you all so much for the Wall Street bailout. Those are my customers and a bit trickles down to me.

HMan- glad to help you out with the bailout thing. We need all the help we can get.

Ended up buying a Chinese/Mormon on Marianna from Raintree. Shaved a few bucks and felt a little more comfortable; I'll spend whatever I saved on scions, and graft Tomcot and maybe one or two or three or four others to it; might as well sneak in a peach and or a plum ...

Thanks to all for the hand-holding over the last months as I made this momentous decision.

:-)M

Speaking of Mormon I have a spare one if anyone wants it .. its crammed too close. I grafted it to Krymsk which is much more dwarfing than other stocks. Ditto for a Lasgerdi Mashaad, a white apricot yet to bloom for me. I'll ship in spring to anyone willing to cover shipping costs. The trees have rather odd shapes due to being crammed close in temporary locations so they may be best headed to let them re-form scaffolds.

Scott

A couple folks mentioned apricots on plum roots. Although I've no first hand experience in this, I've read there are problems with delayed incompatibility of this combo. As I recall, there are breakage problems at the union.

Hi, Olpea. I was curious about this too. I don't know about apricots on plum seedlings, but it does seem that Lovell, Citation, Marianna, Myro, and Krymsk are all used for both plums and apricots, as well as some peaches, and I think some of those are used for almonds. (I can't grow almonds in this climate, though, so I haven't paid it much mind.)

At any rate, those fruits are all sold on some/all of those rootstocks. I'm hoping to be able to sneak a peach onto my apricot, but they tend to be pretty marginal around here.

Best,

M

Scott...

Is the Mormon the one with the supposedly sweet pit? if so let me put myself on the list for spring for that one. I'll gladly pay shipping/handling for your time/effort.

~Chills