I am looking for any opinions on an idea I had. I was wondering if you guys think grafting a Black ischia to a well established FMV free tree could possibly help the Black Ishia grow better. I am assuming the Black Ischia would eventually infect the the rootstock tree, but I was thinking maybe I would get a couple seasons of strong growth on the Black ischia scion before the FMV really starts to set in. Maybe I could use a type of tree as a rootstock that is known to handle FMV well? I was planning on pretty much topworking a tree but keeping about 50% of the rootstock branches as nurse branches. All of this is assuming that I will eventually be able to find some Black ischia which has been quite difficult so far. Any thoughts? Has anyone tried this? I would assume UCD or LSU must have done something like this at some point.