OK, here is the information on Make-A-Tree orders as I understand it. If anyone has corrections or additions, please let me know.
Orders are no longer being accepted. Deadline for ordering is January 1, 2008. (Come to the scion exchange to if you still need trees.)
Trees are $10 each. You do not have to be a member to order trees, but obviously this is geared toward home orchardists, so don't order 100, and resell them. Only half the total amount ($5/tree) is due when you order, you pay the other half when you pickup the trees. The orders need to be picked up at the 2008 HOS Fruit & Berry Cutting (Scion) Exchange (known as the Scion Exchange). This typically is the first weekend in March.
You need to mail this, with a check (payable to "Home Orchard Society") to:
Joanie Cooper
7920 S. E. Amity Road
Amity, Oregon 97101
(You can send it to the HOS P.O. box, but Joanie is the person handling this, so it is easiest if you send it directly to her.)
I hope to have a bit more instuctions on what to put on the order form soon. Ask here, and hopefully people who have ordered in the past (HOS has done this several years in a row now), or otherwise know can help you out.
Questions? Ask here, and I'll do my best to get them answered.
Hi Cyndi,
I don't think so, at least not though the Make-A-Tree program. It just makes things too complicated.
Remember that you can get trees custom grafted at the Scion Exchange (where you pickup the ordered trees). The price could be slightly more, but the selection and options are greater.
Make sense?
Steven
P.S. There are some discussions here on the forums that might talk you out of all in one fruit trees.
Steven,
Do you mean to imply that the grafters at the Scion Exchange have made or will make custom multigrafts at the scion exchange?
I thought they mostly did single whip and tongue grafts on single whip rootstocks. I'd assume for a multigraft you'd either want a branched rootstock or you'd bud in multiple places on the whip.
Jafar
[quote="Steven":1en0061e]Hi Cyndi,
I don't think so, at least not though the Make-A-Tree program. It just makes things too complicated.
Remember that you can get trees custom grafted at the Scion Exchange (where you pickup the ordered trees). The price could be slightly more, but the selection and options are greater.
Make sense?
Steven
P.S. There are some discussions here on the forums that might talk you out of all in one fruit trees.[/quote:1en0061e]
"I would like to order a 2 or 3-in-1 pear. Is that possible? Cyndi" -- Sorry, we can't do those... at least not that time of year. Unless you bring in a tree, which could be done. I've bought "BiMart" cheap bagged trees on sale in the spring and immediately grafted another variety or two onto their limbs. If anyone brought such a tree to the scion exchange I'd be willing to 'topwork' 2 or 3 branches. In fact, someone brought a potted plum in last spring and I grafted another variety 'on top,' leaving the branches below as a 'second variety.'
But Budding is how they profitably produce multi-grafted trees, or by topworking (on location) a slightly older (branched) tree. If you're planting lots of small trees, I'd simply grow each alone.
Here's some more instructions I just got. Please note the Deadline of January 1, 2008
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Instructions for Ordering Make–A–Tree
Ordering Deadline: January 1, 2008
If you are new to grafting, here are two important terms and their definitions:
Scion or scion wood: a cutting from a known variety of fruit tree. The scion will determine the variety of fruit your grafted tree will bear.
Rootstock: forms the bottom of your grafted tree – the roots and lower trunk. The rootstock influences certain characteristics of the tree – mature size tolerance for heavy soils, etc.
Your grafted tree will be formed by grafting scion wood from the variety that you select to a compatible rootstock.
For rootstock and tree size, refer the Make–A–Tree order from.
For apples only, low vigor apples will not be grafted to the most size restricting rootstock, M.27 or P.22. Low vigor varieties grafted to the most size restricting rootstock will not produce fruit. If the variety you choose is low vigor and you order it grafted to M.27 or P.22 rootstock we will substitute M.9 rootstock which should produce an 8 foot tree.
Directions - Download Order Form
1. Name fruit (apple, pear, etc.)
2. Name scion variety
3. Name of rootstock
4. Quantity (number of trees)
5. Cost $10.00 each
6. Grand Total
7. Due Today – 1/2 of grand total
8. Due at pick-up – 1/2 of grand total
9. Fill in contact information – you will receive a reminder postcard to pick-up tree on March 8 at Alder Creek Middle School,
10. Mail completed form along with check, made out to HOS, for due today amount to: Home Orchard Society
PO Box 230192
Tigard, OR 97223
I see the form with no information as to scion types. I see the rootstocks. Is there a chance to send scions in the mail when we send in the order form?
I see many posts here from PNW locals. Possibly some will know of an heirloom sweet cherry URL 'Major Francis' once being a common variety found on an old farm in Clackamas and named after a Portland resident as noted from an old book as being too soft for exporting. For those reasons likely the tree was dropped but I am wondering of the locations of what might be "a few of them still kicking around?" so that I can see how such trees have "faired the years" and possibly save or cross them with others that are firmer.
I would really like to ask if Anyone seen any old 'MF' trees still growing anywhere west of the Cascades? (I have too checked around for any inventories listed but nothing found.) With States requiring restrictions on bringing in and sharing fruit from other States maybe it would be a good idea to start a new thread or dedicate a new section of things to trade for our area.
Rooney --
The Make-A-Tree forms were initially distributed at the All About Fruit show in October. There were hundreds of varieties of apples and pears, and several varieties of other fruits, available for tasting and/or display. I believe you could request almost any variety and have at least a chance that someone can provide a scion; scions are also provided by the HOS Arboretum at Clackamas Community College. There's an inventory of the arboretum available on this website, from the Arboretum tab. I don't see Major Francis there, though I do see Emperor Francis and an unidentified cherry. Calling the arboretum might be a good way to find more info.
I hope this is helpful!
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