G-Squared ....... Don't let the roots worry you on your SLN trees. The Antonovka rootstock they graft to isn't usually fibrous. They look more like a carrot - kind of plain and clunky. All of our trees from SLN have done REALLY well. It takes a couple years for them to establish their Antonovka root systems, but when they do - they take off. We haven't lost one.