On Nov 30, 12:08*pm, Charlie Pridham
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"Gary" wrote in message
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Wonder if someone can help please.

I understand the different qualities of apple rootstock i.e. M26, M106
etc, but what is rootstock actually grown from, cant seem to find
anything on the internet.

Many Thanks

Gary

I had a similar question go through my mind a couple days ago. I wondered,
to get a dwarf tree for rootstock, if I could plant a seed from a (grafted)
dwarf apple tree & grow one?

Then again, if the graft was from a larger growing specimen, would that
render the new tree the same size as the original (grafted on scion wood) or
the original rootstock?

rob

Getting dwarf stock is a matter of years of careful cross breeding and
selection, you may of course get lucky but the odds are against.
If you see a fruit tree that is a seedling (not grafted) and it is small
(not because of age) then you can do hard wood cuttings but apple and
pear stock is not that expensive!
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwallwww.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

And if memory serves, there was an article in the RHS about frruit
trees fairly recently and again, if I recall correctly, chanomeles
were given as the rootstock for sommat or 'tudder. Pears I think.