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This winter I planted two new hazel trees, but my naughty dog got bored and decided to chew through one of them (Pearsons Prolific). I cut it shorter and hoped it would regrow as a sort of coppice. It has put out a small new shoot a couple of inches from the top, but a much bigger shoot is coming up from the base. Does anyone know if hazel trees are grafted like fruit tees, and if the big shoot from the base might be reverted to the wild hazel rather than the variety?
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Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes -
I'd be surprised if they were grafted, given that they are so easy to grow from their nuts, but a belter of a shoot from the base is kind of suspicious. Someone's bound to know. -
Can you ask the supplier?Comment
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That's the way Hazel grow. They are not grafted... don't worryComment
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It is only the corkscrew Hazel that is some times grafted and then send up straight stems dorm the base. If anyone has one of these rip off any straight stems as they will take over the plant.Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poetComment
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Hazels are usually on their own roots; produced by layering.
They are also notorious for suckering (producing lots of new shoots from just below ground level, forming a multi-stemmed clump).
Good pruning in the early years (i.e. immediate removal of suckers the instant you see them, going below ground to do so if possible) can allow you to grow a hazel with just one stem..Comment
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Thanks for all your replies, I don't mind a multi-stemmed tree as long as it gives nuts
Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoesComment
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I have a twisted hazel which has produced a nut (just one) for the first time. Can you eat nuts from this type of Hazel?Comment
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