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Tristan

Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Posts: 392
Location: North Gloucestershire

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 09 4:26 pm Post subject: Rootstock suppliers
Does anyone know where I can get larger numbers of fruit tree rootstocks from?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 09 4:36 pm Post subject:
I'll bet you 50p Tahir does.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45431
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 09 4:44 pm Post subject:
Talaton Plants and Frank P Matthews (wholesale only)

Woodburner

Joined: 28 Apr 2006
Posts: 2904
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 09 10:26 pm Post subject:
Blackmoor are theo only people I've found who actually quote prices, so possibly too small for your purposes.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 09 8:22 am Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Talaton Plants and Frank P Matthews (wholesale only)

Yay. You owe me 50p!

yummersetter

Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 3241
Location: Somerset

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 09 8:45 am Post subject:
What are you thinking of doing, Tristan?

Tristan

Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Posts: 392
Location: North Gloucestershire

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 09 11:46 am Post subject:

The local estate is moving to arable from mixed farming and so a few of my gardening customers will no longer be able to rent ont their fields for stock grazing. I'm working on persuading them to convert to orchards and after great success with grafing over the last few years I'd like to graft from some of the local garden trees and a few good hedgerow varieties round here.

Before anyone points out that fruit trees can grow well on their own roots, I've never had great success with striking cuttings from fruit trees.

Nick, the cheque's in the post

(yeah, right!)

Thanks for the suggestions.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45431
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 09 11:48 am Post subject:
Gages take very easily on their own roots

Tristan

Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Posts: 392
Location: North Gloucestershire

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 09 11:56 am Post subject:
Hardwood or semi-ripe? Ive just stooled an old plum and grafted a gage to the resulting stocks. Looking good so far but purely experimental. one of those 'I wonder what happens if I.......' moments That really makes no sense at all!

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45431
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 09 12:01 pm Post subject:
I've never done it but I know a grower in Cambs who does it, says it's easy peasy. No idea when he does it. We've got loads of suckers around one of our gages which we've let grow for the last couple of years, will be digging them up this winter.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 09 12:08 pm Post subject:
Do you need the rootstock all this year? I remember the fruit garden at Wisley has a bed of earthed up rootstocks producing a good crop of new shoots, so you could grow plenty of your own in a couple of years.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 09 12:13 pm Post subject:
What are you after, and what kind of prices are you looking for? Just I've seen our council are providing traditional apple trees (and others). I'll try and find the details. Prices aren't bad (to my mind, but I only want a handful), but might be if you're after a lot.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 09 12:14 pm Post subject:
https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/leisure/parks_recreation/4799.asp If you're interested, I could grab, pack and courier. I think I'll be going for myself.

Tristan

Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Posts: 392
Location: North Gloucestershire

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 09 3:34 pm Post subject:
Excellent idea. I love the old Herefordshire orchards, used to collect mistletoe in the ones round Leominster as a kid. If the plan comes off I'll probably need more than they'd want to supply, but thanks for the offer.

Vic

Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 387
Location: Sherborne, Dorset

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 09 12:09 pm Post subject:
If you are looking for large quanties (100s not 10s) John Worle is possibly your man https://www.johnworle.co.uk/ Also an extremely helpful, friendly and useful source of information on anything to do with orchardss

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