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Old 12-28-2011, 12:48 AM   #156 (permalink)
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Default Re: In the beginning, the plant site was empty

Yes, I'm still potting up bareroot fruit trees!

One of the humorous ironies of bareroot is that the true miniatures have larger root systems than a "standard" variety. This is because it takes the miniatures an extra year to be "of size" to sell. For comparison, a true miniature has an inter-node length of about a 1/2 inch, where as a standard has at least an inch or two between leaf and/or branch nodes on a stem.

So here you go ... a picture of a bareroot "Pix Zee" peach which comes grafted on "Lovell" rootstock. The entire plant is 4 feet high, and you can see the graft about halfway up. For size comparison, there is a 5-gallon pot on the left that a "standard" would fit in, but obviously the "Pix Zee" will need the 15-gallon pot on the right!

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