Plant Cloner

Is your quince grafted? Are you aiming at propagating the root stock or the graft tissue? What will you do with the clone assuming that it roots and grows?

David

I don't know for sure if the quince is grafted or not; my wife planted it here about 15 years before I met her. She thinks it is un-grafted, though.

I plan to porpagate cuttings taken from the branches of the trees or vines, not the root stock.

If they root and grow, I'll pot them in potting soil and eventually put them out in the orchard or vineyard.

Paul

If it is ungrafted and it's a good tree you should get another good tree.

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

Good luck.

David

Aerocloners work great with soft cuttings. If it's a woody cutting, try heeling it in outdoors in a sand-filled trench until spring. Wound the stem and heel in deep, leaving just the terminal bud uncovered.

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.

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

Neither have I.

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