Those will be good rootstocks for your area, What would be wonderful is if you can find trees already grafted to those rootstocks.
The reason for wanting to find them ready to go is that you won't have to wait the two years from graft to first fruiting.
Even Though nurseries advertise that you get fruit faster with grafted trees, they fail to mention that the grafted trees spend two to three years developing prior to shipping to nurseries.
That is why they fruit faster, of
course you can also buy older fruit trees that are on their own
roots and those will fruit for you just like the grafts since they are old enough to bear when available to the nurseries.
If you plant say a peach pit and it sprouts, that will take seven years to bear fruit, the main thing a graft does is give you a better
root system, if the scion was three years old when grafted to the new roots,
then it will be 4 years to fruiting instead of seven. Some trees respond a year faster. Most grafts to fruit trees (commercially done grafts) are to dwarf root stock, this keeps the size of the adult down to 15-20 feet,
but the trees will not live for hundreds of years like an on own roots tree might. However, since none of us tend to live for centuries, it really isn't something to worry about.
We have both, grafted and non-grafted fruit trees, interestingly all our trees fruit the same since we buy older on own root trees and our grafted trees were already 6 years old when we bought them.
Next year I will be taking cuttings for rooting from our pear and
apple trees to expand the orchard. We are lucky in that we have no need of grafting root stock unless we just want to do it.
I used to graft up to 10,000 trees a year but now I usually graft for fun, creating trees with many varieties of apples on one tree is pretty cool. I may even get into doing the same with pear trees in the next few years.
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