How to Use rootstock in a Sentence

rootstock

noun

• The rootstock is the bottom part of the tree and grows roots.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2023
• Dig up the rootstock in fall after the leaves and stems turn black.
  — Ciscoe Morris, The Seattle Times, 5 July 2017
• This growth is that of the rootstock rose and should be removed.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2022
• Are there some cases in which the plant looks dead, but the rootstock could be alive?
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
• Scion: the portion of a stem that is transferred to the rootstock when grafting.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2022
• Pruning out the suckers will not harm either the rootstock or the scion.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2021
• The ban affects the Bradford pear and any other tree grown from the Pyrus calleryana rootstock.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 July 2021
• The bottom plant, called the rootstock, provides the root system.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2021
• Due to the graft between the rootstock (in the soil), and the scion plant (above the graft), that area is susceptible to cold injury.
  — oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2019
• Branches from the rootstock may have a different type of leaf than the branches from the scion.
  — oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2022
• Sometimes the rootstock sends up shoots of its own, as suckers from below the graft union.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2021
• Suckers are branches that sprout from the rootstock below the graft union.
  — oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2022
• Either grow plums as a bush on dwarfing rootstock or as a fan.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 24 July 2018
• Every part of the tree below the graft union comes from the rootstock tree; the trunk, branches and fruit emerge from the scion cultivar.
  — oregonlive, 14 Nov. 2021
• Check that the base of the trunk is sound – graft failure can occur on plants as old as 20 years – and that the younger stems are not emerging from the rootstock.
  — oregonlive, 3 July 2021
• When root suckers appear beneath the graft union, the growth comes from the rootstock tree, not the cultivar.
  — oregonlive, 14 Nov. 2021
• Winzler and Wenk grafted more than 500 scions of rootstock at the beginning of the season, of which about two-thirds took.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
• Any apple variety can be a dwarf if the tree is grafted to a dwarf-sized rootstock, Mohn says.
  — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• Bare root fruit trees are made of two parts — fruiting wood grafted onto a rootstock.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2021
• The rootstock is chosen for its disease resistance and the scion or above-ground part of the plant is chosen for its foliage and fruit.
  — oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2020
• Last spring, Forward planted 400 apple trees down the road from the horse barn — rootstock, so production is a ways off.
  — Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2020
• The hop produces annual vines from a permanent rootstock known as the crown.
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 13 May 2017
• Given a chance, the rootstock rose will diminish the growth of the purchased rose and eventually take over.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2022
• Care should be taken to never cut grafts back to the rootstock or risk losing them entirely.
  — Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023
• Relentless breeding of stronger rootstocks means U.S. pistachio saplings can grow to fruition in 4 years, rather than 7 to 10.
  — Marc Champion, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• The Dr. Huey rose was introduced to market in 1914 and is a wichurana climbing rose now largely used for rootstock and breeding.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 9 June 2017
• Many are grafted to combine the ideal flower onto a strong rootstock.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
• Madrid’s solution was grafting merlot vines to the rootstock of Riparia Gloire, an American wild grape species that does well in damp soils.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2022
• Instead, new vines are created not from seeds but by cutting pieces of existing vines and grafting them to rootstock.
  — Kevin Begos, Smithsonian, 6 June 2018
• Do keep an eye out for suckers coming from the rootstock or the trunk and remove them forcibly by wrenching them out to prevent the sucker from taking over and sapping energy from your tree rose.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024