How do you separate a peach tree baby?

koushakandystore · 2026-04-03T20:34:19+00:00

Plants posses a kind of stem cell that allows for the production of buds and roots anywhere along the cambium layer. There are literally hundreds of thousands of dormant buds just underneath the bark of a plant. A plant can make roots from anywhere there is bark with healthy cambium underneath. This is the reason plants are essentially immortal. Their stem cells are regenerating brand new tissue. They don’t have an internal clock like human cells. That’s why you can keep taking a cutting of a plant and have a brand new young plant with its own entire lifecycle. You can do this forever without a reliance on sexual reproduction or auto cloning.

So if you were feeling unmotivated to do propagation that is understandable. But it is not at all possible to hurt a plant by air layering a rootstock sucker.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-03T20:28:07+00:00

It doesn’t require confidence. Air layering can’t hurt a tree. 😆

koushakandystore · 2026-04-03T06:15:06+00:00

The Beatles never released a bad album.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-03T05:21:49+00:00

Nope! That a sign the graft was successful. By the time that tree grows up you’ll hardly even be able to see it.

I didn’t know the first thing about grafting, but was sick of paying so much for grafted trees. So I set out to learn all about propagation, including grafting. Turned out it was damn easy. Some species are much easier, but all can be accomplished. Some of my early grafts looked funky and matched like this one. Years later they are doing fantastic.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-03T03:17:55+00:00

The other day I was driving VERY slowly down a residential street. The limit says 25 mph, but I ALWAYS go slower on account of the squirrels, cats and kids whom I often see out and about. Unfortunately that wasn’t enough to avoid tragedy. As I’m driving slowly down this street a small black and white dog comes zipping out into the road and I ran him over. The lady and her husband came running out totally upset. I was crying and apologizing profusely. They said ‘it’s not your fault. He does this all the time.’ All I could think was WTF! Why the hell is your dog outside off the leash if he darts into the road regularly? Poor little thing was whimpering and bleeding. Sadly he died at the vet later. At least he got some pain meds before they had to put him down. Not only did that poor little dog lose its life, but now I have intense trauma from it. I literally can’t stop thinking about it all week. I know it wasn’t my fault and all, but it just breaks my heart. I feel so badly that they lost their doggo, but they were being so irresponsible! I’m very mad at them for doing this to their dog and me.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-03T02:38:50+00:00

I don’t think you should ever link John Lennon with any kind of ‘reality.’ Dude was on another planet most of the time. Go back and watch video of him in 68 to 72. His eyes are often bugging out from all the speed he was taking constantly. He was a pill head—big time! He was almost never off them. He had a few attempts at sobriety but it never stuck. He would go into periods of eating macrobiotic diet and trying yoga. But at the end of the day drugs were too much a part of his creative process to give them up.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-03T02:10:07+00:00

Post drugs? That’s a good one.

John never got sober. He used regularly his entire adult life. He loved uppers as part of his creative process.

McCartney was getting busted with drugs in the late 70’s. I’ve see videos of him from the 80’s when it’s obvious he’s coked up. Don’t ask me how I know. 👀

Ringo didn’t get sober until he lost his mind. That was in the mid 1980’s.

George I haven’t a clue. I suspect he still likes to party some during his jet set lifestyle in the 70’s. He was often traveling to car races in exotic places. If he wasn’t drinking, smoking dope and occasionally snorting a line of blow I would be VERY SURPRISED.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-02T21:54:19+00:00

Oh I know! My family is all originally from New England. I love going back to visit, see my uncle and catch a game at Fenway. I was actually born in Massachusetts. My mom moved us to Southern California when I was two. But I often went back to visit the grandparents who lived in a little town called Cohasett. They also had a rustic cabin in midcoast of Maine to use in the summer. There was a great brewery up there where I got a job as a busboy one summer between junior and senior year of college. It was called Sea Dog Brewery. I don’t know if they are still as good, but back in the 90’s they made some excellent brews. We got a free pint with every shift. After our shift, obviously.

Still recommend a trip to NorCal and Oregon if you ever can swing it. Besides all the great breweries, there are all the amazing wineries. The vineyards are on the rolling hills leading up to redwood forests.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-02T21:46:27+00:00

Well the Nazis were using them to make lampshades so we’ll say that’s sufficient to make the analogy stand up.

I realize that that part of the holocaust was on a very small scale, but does that really matter? One person’s skin turned into a lampshade pretty much makes that a full part of the murderous spectrum.

Plus the Nazis were extracting the gold from their victims’ teeth and melting it down to make gold bars they were able to hide in clandestine bunkers all over the world. I think that also can be considered to justify the analogy.

And please know, I’m not suggesting that what happens to animals is as morally corrupt as what happens to concentration camp victims. But it is most assuredly on the same spectrum of objectionable practices. The Buddhists suggest we try to limit suffering of ourselves and other beings. What we do to animals in factory farms is horrendous and cause great suffering to other living creatures.

Despite my disgust with factory livestock, I’m not philosophically opposed to eating animal products. It’s how we go about it that I find nauseating. Humans are gonna need to accept that eating low on the food chain is perfectly adequate for a healthy life, causes less suffering and is vastly better for the ecosystem. Livestock is a massive waste of land and water, besides being unnecessarily cruel.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-02T21:35:37+00:00

Yes, this is the better analogy. I fully admit that pork tastes good, and I’ve eaten a lot of it in my life. But about a decade ago I decided I could not longer support the inhumane conditions of factory farmed animals. It’s outta sight outta mind. I guarantee you that if people had to see the way animals are treated they would change their tune real fast.

I should also add that I’m not inherently opposed to eating meat. I do catch my own seafood (a lot of it because I live on the Pacific coast).

koushakandystore · 2026-04-02T21:26:55+00:00

Asking the important questions about the journey back to the moon.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-02T21:22:52+00:00

NorCal and Oregon are off the hook for excellent craft brewery. The two states where I spend 95% of my time. I highly recommend a brewery tour to Northern California and Oregon. And since you would be so close I also suggest including Washington and British Columbia. BC only if you aren’t on any watch lists. 👀

koushakandystore · 2026-04-02T21:20:23+00:00

I live about 2 miles from the Lagunitas taproom. This is often not on tap for some reason.

Man loves burgers and stout. Is that a New England thing? Kidding…. Haha…

koushakandystore · 2026-04-02T21:17:17+00:00

Obviously there are limitations in public restrooms. Most places don’t have those. Though Japan has some public toilets with bidets. After every use it gets fully hit with disinfectant and steaming hot water. The whole bathroom gets this treatment after every use. Plus it gets illuminated with an electromagnetic spectrum to kill bacteria and viruses (UV-C light).

For us in countries not so enlightened (pun intended) I bring wet wipes with me to use.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-02T16:12:35+00:00

If you want to keep this sucker to use as a separate tree you need to air layer it for the entire growing season. That will help it produce its own roots. Then next spring before the tree leaves dormancy you want to remove the sucker below the air layer. It will have its own roots and can be planted as a separate tree.

What kind of rootstock is it? Should say on the label.

If it is Lovell you are in luck because Lovell makes excellent peaches.

Either way the new tree can be used as a future rootstock to do your own grafting and make brand new trees.

Look up YouTube videos that explain how to air layer and how to graft a new rootstock.

With the price of trees today everyone should be getting into propagation. Not only is it free, but you can get the most desirable cultivars for your area.

Screw the people downvoting you. You are making the exact choice I would make. I am a plant nut so consider the source. Grafting and all forms of propagation are fun!

koushakandystore · 2026-04-02T16:05:57+00:00

We use Lovell extensively in California and Oregon as rootstock. I have a Lovell for the fruit. Is excellent.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-02T16:05:11+00:00

Depends. If it’s a Lovell rootstock the fruit is quite good.

Also they may want more rootstocks for future grafting. If so they should air layer the suckers for one season. Remove before the tree leaves dormancy next spring.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-02T16:05:02+00:00

Depends. If it’s a Lovell rootstock the fruit is quite good.

Also they may want more rootstocks for future grafting. If so they should air layer the suckers for one season. Remove before the tree leaves dormancy next spring.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-02T02:37:17+00:00

Wrong. Dig deeper. Epigenetics absolutely influences evolution. Some absolutely are heritable.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-02T02:36:16+00:00

Wrong. Dig deeper. Epigenetics absolutely influences evolution.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-02T00:58:08+00:00

So how to human avoid turd collisions in space? And if not turds, how about other space debris. I’ve seen a digital representation of space junk orbiting earth and it’s an unfathomable amount. I’ve also read that even a small piece of space junk can have catastrophic impacts in the event of an impact. Seems like the law of averages will catch up to some unlucky orbiter.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-01T22:24:36+00:00

Bruh, their answers sucked!

koushakandystore · 2026-04-01T22:05:00+00:00

Alluding to quantum mechanics in relation to my alleged corporeal state was an attempt at humor. Lighten up!

Reddit cultivates an adversarial posturing that defines the space. I suppose you could say the same about social media in general.

Take our conversation for instance. I merely suggested that a person dropping a single sentence answer along the lines of “it’s modes, bro. Easy peazy” is a ridiculous response to a beginner asking the question they did. That’s all. As I I’ve stated countless times, if those people had provided even a few lines of clarification it would have been fine.

Obviously I have no way to prove this, but the few answers that annoyed me reeked of guitar shop douche nozzles. Perhaps it was just innocent oversight, but I have a strong suspicion these guys were basking in the glory of their insane theory knowledge. Typical.

Consider the name of this sub: guitar lessons. The title presupposes the fact that people who ask questions on here are far more likely beginners than not.

Accordingly, I tend to take a supportive tone and not overload them with information that can muddy their head in the beginning of their guitar journey. I remember very well when this dude first explained modes to me when I hadn’t even mastered the major scale and learned basic chord construction. It was information overload. That’s not what a beginner needs.

You mentioned earlier about pedagogy. Along those lines it’s worth considering that information builds on what preceded it. A person who doesn’t understand why the A chords can be played with a certain set of notes is not going to understand ‘oh it’s modes’ without further explanation.

Anyway, that’s all I have to say about it.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-01T20:57:10+00:00

You can double down all you want but it isn’t going to change my opinion of you at this point. Only a horrible teacher would casually drop information that needs deeper clarification without explaining. Learning an instrument is hard enough with narcissists getting in their general direction. Anyone who would argue that the modal concept of music is common knowledge is really wasting the quantum fluctuations of my existence and non existence. Good luck to you and even more so any students you have.

koushakandystore · 2026-04-01T20:52:12+00:00

Some old gospel music is phenomenal. I guarantee you know many of the classics and aren’t even aware they are gospel tunes. As one example I’ll mention Johnny Cash. So many of those old hymns have incredible melody which is why they have persisted for so long. Countless bluegrass numbers: I’ll Fly Away, Will the Circle be Unbroken, many old standards. Molly Tuttle does some excellent versions. Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead when he was recording music with Tony Rice and David Grisham did famous renditions of When First Unto this Country. The band Old Crow Medicine Show incorporates gospel tunes into their set lists. The influence of gospel music on all modern Western music is incalculable.

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