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
• 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
• One of the region’s most important producers is Bodegas Olivares, where some of the old Monastrell rootstock might date back a hundred years.
  — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
• Vines can be propagated by breaking off a shoot and sticking it in the ground, or onto existing rootstock.
  — Patrick Morgan, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2011

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024