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ABOVE: B) Small, open trees are productive throughout the entire can-
opy.
Large trees also tend to begin bearing fruit crops slowly. Grafting a fruit
variety onto a precocious, dwarfing rootstock can cut the time to production
tremendously. In the Pacific Northwest, fruit specialists report that sweet
cherry trees on Gisela dwarfing rootstocks begin bearing in the third leaf
(third growing season from planting), are up to 50 percent smaller than trees
on the older Mazzard rootstock, and begin turning profits in 8 years, as op-
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