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Re: HT on own roots

> Do any members of this List grow hybrid teas on their own roots?  I've
> noticed that HOGR includes a few HTs in their catalogue, and I have
> wondered how they fare. Judy Sylvester zone 5.

Yes I do, with varying results.  I *have* to say so far my grafted
bushes (the few I have) have done better, but I *think* it's because
they were bigger to start with.  Most own-roots are in one gallons or
smaller, and most grafteds are at least two-three gallons.  Cane
thickness is really strong on grafteds.  I'm still sticking to own root:
some of them have really taken off.  But again, I haven't lost any
grafteds *in the ground*.  I lost a bunch due to freeze and drought that
I hadn't had a chance to plant yet, but that's another story.

However, for the moment I'm an own root fan.

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Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com)  Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
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