Apple scions

[Lardman]

Some time back I offered up some Winter King & Kidds Orange Red scions, can someone remind me who wanted them - for the life of me I can't remember.

There's also some tupstones, gala, a bit of egremont russet, pitmaston pineapple and some thin winter nellis pear if anyone is interested. The others are a bit on the thin side so you'll need to handy with a knife.

[nickdub]

There's also some tupstones, gala, a bit of egremont russet, pitmaston pineapple and some thin winter nellis pear if anyone is interested. The others are a bit on the thin side so you'll need to handy with a knife.

Hi Lardman,
It wasn't me that you were chatting with, but I'm interested in scions of pitmaston pineapple and winter nellis. I can either swap for scions of any of the ones I have listed below or send you an s.a.e., as you prefer.

Cheers
Nick

Apple:-
George Cave
James Grieve
Sunset
Orleans Reinette
Bramley
Cox
Tydeman's late orange
Ashmead's kernel

Pear:-
Conference
Josephine de Malines

[Lardman]

You should have a PM...

[nickdub]

Hopefully you now have a reply from me, if I've navigated the system correctly.

[Scarlet]

This may be the thread you are after?
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ood_93817.html

[Hereford fruit grower]

I'd be interested in

Apples - Winter Nelis
Pears - Winston (Winter King)

Ideally I'd prefer to bud in summer. I'm within reach of Worcs. or Ross-on-Wye... depends how much the postage would be. I've quite a collection if anyone wants other grafting or budding wood:

20 apples - Laxton's Epicure, St. Edmund's Russet, Sunset, Norfolk Royal Russet, Jupiter, Holstein, Rubinette through to Captain Kidd, Rosemary Russet, Golden Russet, Crispin, Sturmer Pippin

12 pears - Doyenne d'Ete, Jargonelle, William's Bon Chretien, Fondante d'Automne, Beuure Superfin through to Doyenne du Comice, Baronne de Mello *, Nouveau Poiteau **, Glou Morceau, Josephine de Malines

Budding wood = a bit easier to post, and I do much more summer than winter pruning. Anyway ask if you need anything.

* Supplied by Keepers as Baronne de Mello but now agreed not to be Baronne de Mello.

** Said by Keepers to be Nouveau Poiteau but IMO probably not N.P. following discussion with others. Still discussing it with the NFC. I expect the site owners would prefer me not to make any more comments on a public forum ... I can do so in a private e-mail, if relevant.

[Hereford fruit grower]

P.S. I forgot; sorry, I have Queen Cox as well if anyone wants scion wood. Only mentioning it because it does v. well for me and hasn't suffered from scab so far.

Details here, except that for me it's been easier than a few well-known varieties and hasn't needed skill
https://www.orangepippin.com/apples/cox-queen-cox

[Craig_C]

What do you have to do with a scion?
Does it get grafted onto root-stock or just planted as is and hope?

Sorry for Noddy questions.

[Guest]

What do you have to do with a scion?
Does it get grafted onto root-stock or just planted as is and hope?

Sorry for Noddy questions.

Grafted on to rootstock. It is also a sensible question when you don't know (A scion is just a posh term for a cut bit of twig).

[boundtothesoil]

What do you have to do with a scion?
Does it get grafted onto root-stock or just planted as is and hope?
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A scion is just a cutting taken from a tree of the variety in question. You could try to plant it directly into the ground, or a sand /compost mix, but the chances of cuttings 'taking' are very low for most varieties.

The usual way of using a scion is to graft it onto a root-stock to produce a new tree of the scion's variety. You can purchase root stocks for a pound or so from a few UK nurseries on the web. Alternatively, once you've bought a single root stock, you can start propagating your own root stocks in subsequent years using a stooling bed approach.

The other way of using a scion is to graft it on to an existing apple tree of a different variety. All subsequent growth made by the scion will be of the scion's variety. Hence you will produce a tree made up of two varieties. Scions of different varieties can be grafted onto a single apple tree to produce a tree on which each branch is of a different varieties.

Getting back to planting scions as cuttings, cuttings taken from root stocks such as MM106 and M26 actually root pretty well in my experience, usually with more than a 50% success rate.

[flynch]

I have quite a few varieties of Apple and pear. I'll have a look which varieties have enough to srnd scions and post the list.

[Fruitsense]

Scionwood

I have a good quantity of thick egeremont russet if any one needs any.

[Scarlet]

Hi Fruitsense,

You need to have been a vine member for a bit longer and made more posts to be able to participate in swaps on the boards.....please read:
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...nce_76437.html

This is just to safeguard our members...you could start a thread and tell us a bit more about yourself, what you grow and where and say hello to other members.

[Lardman]

I'd be interested in
Apples - Winter Nelis
Pears - Winston (Winter King)

I'll grab some later today for you. You can chip bud in spring, it's just not as successful - not that I have any success in summer doing it either.

I'd be interested in
... depends how much the postage would be.

A5 Jiffy bag and a large letter stamp - £1.50 should do for a goodly amount of pencils.

I've quite a collection if anyone wants other grafting or budding wood:

20 apples - Laxton's Epicure, St. Edmund's Russet, Sunset, Norfolk Royal Russet, Jupiter, Holstein, Rubinette through to Captain Kidd, Rosemary Russet, Golden Russet, Crispin, Sturmer Pippin

Ohh russets ... love me some russets. Let me do a quick check and I'll come back to you.

[Hereford fruit grower]

I'd prefer to bud in summer, please. (Mid to late July is the best time usually.)

Grafting's done in spring because it produces a tree a full year earlier than budding in mid summer.

However, it's more time-consuming.

Anyone needing the varieties I listed, pls just say, either wood for grafting now/soon or wood for budding later.