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Post by steev on Aug 12, 2013 10:36:09 GMT -5
I find that my female has two vigorous sprouts from the rootstock; rather than just clipping them off, so they don't sap the graft, I'll try to air-layer them, in hopes of being able to graft new females. I think pistachios are relatively difficult to graft successfully, that being why they're so expensive (~$25 each, wholesale; ouch.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2013 19:43:03 GMT -5
By word of mouth, the retail price is $60.
I have bought "raw" pistachio nuts, but they rot, no matter how I treat them.
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Post by steev on Aug 18, 2013 19:48:04 GMT -5
A woman I've worked for runs a mail-order plant business; she's partly paid me with wholesale pistachios, at $25 per; she sells pairs for $150!
I'm considering trying to get 9 females, bare-root, this Winter, from a wholesale nursery with which I have some connection.
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Post by steev on Aug 25, 2013 20:37:40 GMT -5
So I tried to air-layer two root-suckers, and found two more on one male, which I'll do next week. The first had gotten long enough that if they root, I'll cut them off and layer again, further down; I may have enough material for the nine female grafts I was hoping to get. In any event, if I can get them wholesale, I'll still get a male and five females, just to get this moving faster.
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Post by castanea on Sept 12, 2013 0:34:26 GMT -5
I find that my female has two vigorous sprouts from the rootstock; rather than just clipping them off, so they don't sap the graft, I'll try to air-layer them, in hopes of being able to graft new females. I think pistachios are relatively difficult to graft successfully, that being why they're so expensive (~$25 each, wholesale; ouch.) UC Davis has grown out two seedling pistachios and sells the seeds from those two as the preferred rootstock for commerical pistachios. |
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