Went to Treco with Nick Botner and Larry Radke to pick up this years order of rootstocks. What is seen here are the rootstock fields after harvest. The lighter brown material is sawdust. It is mounded up over a row of apple 'stumps'. In the spring, apple shoots will grow up from the stump. Because they grow threw the sawdust, the shoots root at the base. In late winter, the sawdust is removed from the rows of apple shoots. The shoots (with roots) are cut off making a stump once again. Over these apple stumps is mounded the sawdust and the process continues again. The rootstocks are important because this is what scion wood is grafted onto.
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