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Re: [nafex] Mulberry/Che Graft



By "all three species are related", I meant che, mulberry, and osage orange.
 Not apple.

It was fun for me to see that osage orange root bark is bright yellow, just
like mulberry root bark.

David
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>From: "David A. Consolvo" <fruitopia@FIRSTVA.COM>
>To: nafex@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [nafex] Mulberry/Che Graft
>Date: Sun, Jan 21, 2001, 7:27 PM
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>I don't know about che onto mulberry, but che take very well grafted onto
>osage orange.  The osage orange rootstock I grew out by piling (and
>sometimes covering) in a garden bed a bunch of the big osage orange fruit
>collected from a roadside.  I use whip and tongue grafts in April, and get
>almost as many takes as on apple, if the scionwood and rootstock aren't real
>thin. All three species are related.
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>I've only tasted che fruit once, at Edible Landscaping in Afton, Virginia. 
>They were not rich, but refreshing and nice.  I look forward to my own first
>fruit this year. 
>
>David Consolvo
>Hungrytown, Virginia
>Zone 7
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>>From: jrbrow3@pop.uky.edu
>>To: nafex@egroups.com
>>Subject: [nafex] Mulberry/Che Graft
>>Date: Sun, Jan 21, 2001, 6:47 PM
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>>Has anyone every grafted Che on to a Mulberry tree?
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>> - Joe Brown (Zone 6 KY)
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