"sherwindu" wrote in message
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If it's grafted your top clone probably will not be as good as the
grafted
"parent".

I have never worked with this kind of fruit tree propagation
(cloning).
I didn't know it was possible to do with quinces. It probably would
not work for apples.


Neither have I.


I'm curious why you are saying the top clone would not be as good as
the parent. Seems like the genes would duplicate over to the clone.
The
size of the new tree would be a full standard, where as the original
tree
was probably a dwarf. Is that what you meant by 'not as good'?

Sherwin



I meant that if the original was grafted the combination of root and graft
would be better than a clone of the graft without a different rootstock. If
the graft didn't do better with a different rootstock presumeably it
wouldn't have been grafted on to one, unless it was to dwarf it.

David