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RE: Burying Grafts

So are you saying that the results of can 
produce an "own-root" rose, depending on
the scion rose ?  How about the root stock ?
Wouldn't it also grow as a rose ?

Carleen
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> From: melhulse@netcom.com
> To: rose-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: Burying Grafts
> Date: Saturday, May 30, 1998 10:13 PM
> 
> ** Reply to note from "rosenlund" <rosenlund@transport.com> Sat, 30 May
1998 08:48:25 -0700
> >   
> > I have been hearing resently that some feel they can make a "own-root"
> > rose out of a  grafted rose just by burying the graft deep. I always
> > understood that dirt on a graft would cause the root stock to grow on
it's
> > own. Years ago if you did this, you would have lots of Dr.Huey roses. 
Is
> > there a new root stock that will not "grow" ? Am I missing something ?
> > Surely this can't be right..
> 
> Dr. Huey or any other rootstock with the possible exception of
Multiiflora
> will sucker if not completely de-eyed before being stuck as a cutting
before
> budding.  Dirt on the bud union won't affect the growth of the
understock.
> 
> Remember, the bud union is the scion rose. Depending on the variety, it
may
> or may not cause the scion rose to set out its own roots.  This can be
> desirable or undesirable depending on the USDA zone you live in (if the
> rose is on its own roots and the top is frozen, new growth will come back
> true), the sucker-proneness of the scion variety and whether the scion
> rooting will produce a stronger or weaker rose than would result from
> understock support.
> 
>                     Mel Hulse, Col. USAF (Ret'd)
>                      Silicon Valley Rose Farmer
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