Thanks for the all info! Are you using these for grafting rootstock (which I'm thinking about playing around with)? Will you please pass along a link with lots of practical grafting info plus rootstock/scion combinations. As soon as the rain comes (hopefully this weekend) I'll be watching Dax's youtube video too!

Check back on youtube about March. I'm redoing it, going to simplify things a bit more and the mis-match in sound to video got screwed up.

Barb you should be good with these understocks:
Canaan Fir
Pinus sylvestris (all hard pines, needles in bundles of 2 such as nigra, resinosa, mugo, aristata. Any of these are compatible for grafting)
Pinus strobus (all soft pines or pines with needles in bundles of 5 such as koraiensis, cembra, parviflora and also for Pinus bungeana which is a three needle)
Larix decidua (any larix.... I can't use occidentalis from inland sources, but you should be fine with anything other than that)
Picea abies or Picea pungens. (All Picea compatible just like the firs are and for the Larches).

If you go to Coenosium Gardens website, he lists about 3/4 the way down the page a listing of "understock scion compatibility link. That'll help you. He also sells a video that's real good.

More to come later.

Dax

P.s. I bought all my understocks from this place. They are plugs and are 12-15" inches tall. I then bought more of the large bare-root tree seedlings all for march delivery as that's when shipping begins. My place (six acres) will have a lot of seedlings as well. This time I bought Picea orientalis, Picea omorika (Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia) and another batch of Abies nordmanniana var Ambrolauriana/Ambrolauri...

Thanks Dax...I keep hearing about a more disease resistant rootstock for Chamaecyparis lawsoniana. What would that be?

Barbara

It's a cutting of a cultivar. Ron B would probably know....bboy.

Dax

That's nuts. Buck-fitty for a metasequoia seedling? Christ, I'll take 'em all. What's the difference though, between a plug and a transplant? Transplant is just shipped bare-root? And does it have to be shipped in the spring or fall only, during dormancy?

-j

Transplants are done outdoors and plugs are grown indoors or at least that's the usual process.

I bought plugs too for ease of dropping them in a pot, no trimming of roots and for grafting. They're smaller caliper....I just gotta tell the folks they'll be used for grafting as then we work to get that right caliper.

Have a good week Jman-
D

Hi all,

Does anyone know if Treehaven is still in operation? I haven't been able to find any updated price list all year, and even sent an email, with no reply.

Josh

Try calling him, Josh. That's what I always did.

Josh,

Don still does seedlings in the spring. I don't know how much of a mail order business compared to more local buyers anymore. Over the past couple years he's started to shift his attention more to his arboretum, Christmas tree farm, and surrounding property in the southerntier of WNY. I stopped by his Jamison Rd. location and bought seedlings this past spring, and stopped by day before yesterday and bought our Christmas tree from him (a beautiful grand fir, he always has less common ones cut for Christmas too, like Arizona corkbark and Turkish fir). Try giving him a call. He may not answer, but should get back to you if you leave a message.