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Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen
I think the M series is named for the East Malling horticultural research center where they're been developed, but I could easily be wrong.
I wrote the previous before following the link, funny to see I got something right, including picking the right rootstock for my soil.
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Good for you!
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Due to space constrains I have to keep the trees small, I picked the semi-dwarfing rather than the fully dwarfing rootstock because I plan to train them in espalier, so I think I'll need a bit more vigor to play against than the fully dwarfing rootstock would give.
At the moment my thinking is that at 2$ per root and 2$ per scion (0.5$ for each extra of the same variety) I can definitely afford to experiment a bit, so I'm doing some thinking about different ways to grow a wall of apple trees.
My favorite idea at the moment is a variant belgian weave which I think I can do by pruning at each Y and letting two shoots grow below the cut, with one row of forks(Y's) and one row of grafts(X's) added per year, though I have no real idea of how feasable it is in real life.
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Sounds complicated. My view of horticulture is that things develope better when not actually developed.
Perhaps not.
We do plant corn in rows, don't we???
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