Good evening Lee, Regarding your January question about seedling apple trees: several studies have shown a significant correlation between rootstock variety and fruit taste/quality. See the links below. It does seem surprising however that the difference in quality would be as marked as you describe. Perhaps there are additional factors play here.
Randy Steffens Jr Shepard's Vally Orchards Middle Tennessee http://irrec.ifas.ufl.edu/flcitrus/UF%20IFAS%20Short%20Course%20Proceedings/factors/rootstock.pdf http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0304423885900184 http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0304423894007452 http://treephys.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/1/93.full.pdf >Not sure whats going on here,anybody experienced growing seedling trees? I >started crossing Honeycrisp with Gala,Pinova,Pink Lady, Goldrush,in >1997,Produced hundreds of seedling trees I planted in >1998,also made 2 limb >grafts of each on 5 year old M-9 and B-9 trees,some old Golden Del and >others.,started getting apples on the limb grafts in 2 years, the seedlings >some at 4 years, Afew of the limb >grafts (20-30) of of 900,were outstanding >in quality right away while the seedling tree's apples were tasteless or off >flavored but looked the same, Now,some years later the seedlings still are >worthless >in Quality (taste,dissolved solids),even when properly thinned, >Whats going on here,are all apples more tasty on dwarf? and less quality on >seedling?Will the seedling ever be any good?The seedlings range >from 12 feet >to 40. I don't expect to sell any of these, this is an experiment. Lee >Elliott, Winchester,Illinois, Upstart Nursery
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