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Re: walnut transplanting

J Kroin wrote:
> 
> Dear Alipine members
> 
> Thank you for your kind information on transplanting
> walnut. This was in response to an inquiry to our
> discussion forum at
> 
> http://www.rooting-hormones.com
> 
> The following is a copy of the original posting
> and an important reply.
> 
> Please comment
> 
> regards
> Joel Kroin
> 
> ====================================================
> Hello Joel
> Thanks for your speedy reply to my request for a free sample and additional
> information on Rhizopon. I have a particular application, namely improving
> survival of rooted walnut cuttings. After much trial and error we have been
> able to obtain decent rooting in several genotypes of walnut rootstocks.
> The difficulty we face is that the rooted cuttings do very poorly when
> transferred to the field and many die. I think that it has something to do
> with poor root growth and wanted to try to get the roots growing quickly
> after transplantation. I believe that it would be worthwhile to try
> Rhizopon. The walnut industry has been looking for a method to produce
> clonal rootstocks for quite some time now and it seems a shame that we have
> gotten this far only to be disappointed at the end. I do not know which
> concentration of Rhizoponw would be best. In general walnut is difficult to
> propagate and we have been using 6000 - 8000 ppm IBA for rooting. Perhaps
> this will give you an idea of what concentration would be the best to try out.
> Thanks for your assistance.
> Sincerely,
> Ellen Sutter
> Department of Pomology
> University of California
> Davis, CA 95616
> egsutter@ucdavis.edu
> 
> =========================
> 
> Dear Ellen,
> We received your e-mail on walnut through our importer for the RHIZOPON
> products in the USA, Hortus USA.
> Transplanting of rooted cuttings are more easy when you stick your cuttings
> in plugs or small pots (containers).
> To get a better result in rooting walnut cuttings we advice you to plant
> the cuttings you have now available in a 10 liter container. These plants
> will be your mother plants. Connect them to water and a fertilizing unit
> with drip-irrigation.
> When the cuttings start re-rooting and the new growth starts you take out
> the apical point. Now the plant will start making new young shoots.
> When these shoots are hard enough you can take them as cuttings and root
> them in a paperpot of other small container.
> Use Rhizopon #2 or Rhizopon #3.
> Harvest the cuttings from the motherplants constantly never let them grow
> to old.
> We hope that we give you a new stimulation for your research.
> Please keep us informed on your research.
> Visit our homepage on: http://www.rhizopon.com
> We willgive a paper on the IPPS conference in Hamburg Germany in August 1998.
> Best regards and success,
> Rhizopon bv
> Kees Eigenraam
> info@rhizopon.com
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Hi:

  Maybe  your cuttings are lacking mycorrhiza. Try contacting 
     Tree Pro
     3180 West Lafayette, IN 47906
  They have several products to either dip the rooted plant or maybe
inject into the soil around a tree alredy planted.

              Jerry on the outer banks
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