Interstem questions
As I consider adding some apples to my little suburban yard, I find myself very intrigued by interstem grafting. For one thing I've found the reliability of anyone I've asked to water my plants when I'm away on vacation to be pretty poor. So I really like the better draught resistence and the idea of not having to provide permanent support is nice as well since the plants will be somewhat ornamental.
I would love to hear what people's experiences have been with interstems. It would seem that based on the possible benefits they'd be very popular, but hardly anyone mentions them. I realize they are a bit more work/cost upfront, but is that why they aren't in greater use?
In particular I'm also wondering about other combinations than the main ones I've seen of M.111/bud9 or M.111/M9. If you are basically getting bigger roots for the smaller plant, if you wanted a g65 controlled scion could you put G65 on a g11 or G41? If I put a G65 on a M.111 would that have a similar compatibility of M.111/M9 or would the M.111 basically overwhelm the G65 with too much sap flow or would the G65 even possibly provide so much of an obstacle to sap flow that the M.111 would go into turbo-sucker mode?
The other thing I've heard mentioned is burying the rootstock/intersem graft to reduce the suckering, but I was wondering if this ultimately removed the added benefits of the interstem process if over 5 or 10 or more years the majority of the roots came from the interstem instead of the original rootstock section.
Anyway, I would love to hear people's experiences and thoughts on some of the stuff above. Anyone love them? Anyone found them to be a disaster for some reason. And I would love to know if anyone has tried it with G11 or G65 interstems, since I'm trying to go smaller so I can play around with more varieties (and have them live if I miss a few waterings).
Thanks.
JesseSt
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