Thanks Bill. Sounds like I don't need to worry hybrid varieties. I'm trying to imagine the ramifications if were to let this happen in my small orchard. I'm training my trees on trellis in Oblique Palmette. My rows are not of equal length and I don't have enough rows to isolate each variety to it's own row anyway. Originally, I was going to let all scaffolds graft to their neighbors per typical OP training.
Recently started contemplating if that was going to be an issue where the neighbors are of different varieties. Especially when the neighbors are White Winter Pearmain and Winter Banana which look almost identical. I knew it was already going to be difficult distinguishing which apple I was picking in the crossover section where I imagined I was going to have to follow the wood to be sure I knew what was what. But now it sounds like I could end up with false identification even if I follow the wood. My new concern now is if one neighbor is more vigorous than the other. Would the more vigorous variety slowly take over year after year? I'm wondering now if I should block grafting from happening between different varieties. Am I reading too much into this? Thanks, Rye Hefley Future Farmers Marketer So. Cal ________________________________ From: apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net [mailto:apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net] On Behalf Of Fleming, William Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 14:08 PM To: apple-crop@virtualorchard.net Subject: Re: [apple-crop] What do you get if two varieties graft together? I've seen two different varieties of apple growing next to each other basically graft together when two branches were tied together in tree training. Never saw any mixing of apple variety but what was amusing was when the branches were later cut apart and a different variety ended up on the end of a branch of the other variety. What was also interesting with this situation was sometimes it was like putting in a graft upside down. Growth from that portion of the tree looked weird even from a distance. Bill Fleming Montana State University Western Ag Research Center 580 Quast Ln Corvallis, Montana ________________________________ From: apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net [mailto:apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net] On Behalf Of Rye Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:29 PM To: apple-crop@virtualorchard.net Subject: [apple-crop] What do you get if two varieties graft together? This is not a riddle but a question. If two different apple varieties are growing near each other and a scaffold or two grafted together, what does that do to the fruit? If it affects the fruit, does it affect the fruit differently near the union vs far from the union? Above the union vs below the union? Thanks, Rye Hefley Future Farmers Marketter So. Cal.
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