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Saw this at a friend's , burr on the side of an apple tree throwing out thorn-bearing water shoots. Not a crab apple, good sized eating apples but unknown variety. Well above any graft point. Whatever is happening?!?
Why is that? Didn't know any apples had thorns.Looks like shoots from the rootstock to me (below where I think the graft is).
MM106 rootstock is pretty thorny like in the pic and no doubt plenty of others are too.
Rootstock can be anythingWhy is that? Didn't know any apples had thorns.
if you can put pear on to a plum than you can put apples on them too.Hmmm no? Thought it must be the same genus because DNA is exchanged at the graft union. Malus is only apple.
But with prunus, can put pear, plum, etc on one tree.
IIRC
some of your posts suggest you are indeed cursed.Hawthorn seed grown in a crack in the bark and taken root?
I had a holly tree grew in an apple tree once. I pulled the holly tree out carefully and transplanted it into the wood where it grew into a big tree. The oldies said I’d be cursed forever for moving a holly tree.
dang...i've moved the odd holly. explains a lot mind.Hawthorn seed grown in a crack in the bark and taken root?
I had a holly tree grew in an apple tree once. I pulled the holly tree out carefully and transplanted it into the wood where it grew into a big tree. The oldies said I’d be cursed forever for moving a holly tree.