Rootstocks And Seedlings - Winter

Flowering quince, a shrubby relative to the larger tree form quince. these guys are full of seeds, more so than other quince. Chaenomeles speciosa is the species, they maybe get to 10ft as a shrub or larger bush, True Quince (Cydonia oblonga) can get about twice that size. neither ones of these trees grows in zone 3, but we have some fruit sent by a friend on the east coast so growing out more seedlings this spring.

Winter garden update, white nanking seedlings taking off after a week, photo 2 is western sandcherry another fast growing seedling, crandall currant, highbush cranberry, rhubarb .. it's a mix of what germinated early in stratification, we'll hold them under lights until april then move to the greenhouse

Talking about chokecherry as a rootstock. couple of 2 min videos, probably too long for instagram. If I could remember to hold the phone sideways stuff might make it's way to youtube.

Siberian peach, or chinese wild peach. Prunus davidiana, similar to Siberian C with a fruit that's a bit smaller but sweet + delicious, with a thicker fuzzier skin. zone 3/4, one of the most cold hardy peaches. growing these this summer to try as a rootstock, and to grow out in different forms both on its own roots and grafted. might get to have peaches in zone 3 with some winter cover.

Western sandcherry, prunus besseyi. hansen bush cherries. such a cool plant, the fruit is super tasty (unlike the related eastern sandcherry prunus pumila), it's one of the parents of most cherry plums and the black nanking, and it's a super cold hardy rootstock. I'll be grafting apricots and other prunus onto it in the spring, and generally growing many of them for no other reason than to plant around our nursery, they should do well in our sandy soil #sandcherry

Started the winter garden. apple seeds direct into 2.5" pots to start Siberian crabapple rootstocks. with this head start they'll be up to size for grafting by the end of the season #indoorgarden

Apple rootstocks in the fall, seedling Siberian crabapple. this time of year I'm collecting scion wood and planning to start bench grafting as soon as the ground thaws. #grafting #rootstock

Jack pine 12 weeks old. growing conifers requires patience, a one year old tree can be just a few inches tall. #jackpine #pineseedlings

Pine seedlings just about a week after germination, they still have their little seed hats on. This is one of half a dozen species we're growing for our own silviculture, a long term project to add diversity into our 52 acre aspen forest. #silviculture #pinetrees #pineseedlings #scottspine #seedlings #treeseedlings

Siberian crabapple with purple genetics. One of the trees we harvested seed from in the fall had stunning purple leaves, and about 50% of the seedlings carried that trait. #appletrees #appletreenursery #siberiancrabapple #applerootstock #appletree #crabapples #treenursery

Siberian crabapple (Malus Baccata) rootstocks from our winter garden getting potted up. #appleseedling #rootstocks