Nursery - Tree Quality
For growers, each plantation is a huge investment for the next 12 to 20 years. Only high quality fruit trees ensure a fast return.
Since the beginning of the tree production, Gräb nursery claims to cultivate only well feathered and rooted plant material. Well rooted starter material, that we receive from selected rootstock-nurseries, are only one element for our quality trees.
After grafting we remove herbaceous branches on the trunk several times at an early stage to avoid undesirable pruning wounds.
Therefore, we are able to offer trees with different stem heights to our clients. Furthermore, we are able to devise individual solutions concerning the variety-rootstock combinations.
We offer the following tree shapes:
| Sweet cherries: | one-year-old, two-year-old knip tree |
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| Sour cherries: | one-year-old, quarter-standard tree with one-year-old crown |
| Apricots: | one-year-old, spindle bush |
| Peaches, nectarines: | one-year-old, spindle bush |
| Damsons: | one-year-old, two-year-old knip tree, spindle bush |
| Mirabelles, gages, plums, Japanese plums: | one-year-old, two-year-old knip tree, spindle bush |
| Elder: | whips, quarter-standard tree |
Explanations
| One-year-old: | one-year-old grafting, 60 cm stem height |
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| Two-year-old knip tree: | two-year-old tree with a one-year-old crown, 60-75 cm stem height |
| Quarter-standard tree: | two-year-old tree with a one-year-old crown, 75-100 cm stem height |
| Spindle bush: | generative two-or three-year old tree, 60-80 cm stem height |
| Whips: | two-year-old tree with one-year-old long shoot +100 to +200 cm |
Sorting
| I+ : | at least 6 branches with regular and uniform distribution |
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| I : | 3-6 branches with regular and uniform distribution |
| II+ : | up to 3 branches, irregular or one-sided branches |
| II : | unbranched |
Signs for intellectual property
| ™ | goods protection symbol, registered trademark |
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| (S) | This variety is registered or applied for plant variety rights. These varieties are only released for fruit production. Propagation of those varieties is only allowed with prior permission of the variety owner. |