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| I've been looking at the selection of apple trees at Burnt Ridge Nursery and St. Lawrence Nursery. Burnt Ridge offers either Antanovka or BUD118 (a semi-dwarf Russian variety), while SLN just uses Antanovka to ensure absolute winter hardiness. After just enduring -26F here for 3 nights in a row (so much for my dream of finally being a solid Z5 after all), I want to ensure my trees are rock-solid winter hardy. SLN says Antanovka only gets 15 ft tall or so, while BRN says it will give a 20-25 ft tree. BRN says their BUD118 will give the 15 ft height I want. Any opinions either way? I've had great luck with both nurseries, BTW. Thanks! |
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| I'd say a guaranteed way to keep a tree shorter is for it to repeatedly freeze to the snowline during test winters. I'd go with Antonovka; you can keep it short, but spreading. It is absolutely bomb proof. |
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- Posted by harvestman 6 (My Page) on Tue, Jan 14, 14 at 5:52
| I don't believe -25 threatens any common apple rootstock. Aren't those root stocks required only in z4 and lower and where hardy apple varieties are also required? Not much help having hardy rootstocks if the scion dies. |
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- Posted by Americanchestnut (My Page) on Tue, Jan 14, 14 at 13:16
| Both rootstocks could make a tree taller than advertised. Keeping things manageable is more about pruning than anything else. I think either one would be fine, the antonovka has the advantage of being grown from seed and so you have more genetic diversity than the cloned Bud 118s will have. |
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