How does fruit tree grafting work and is it something I can diy at home with, say….apple trees?
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The basic idea is that you have a main branch that supplies a secondary branch with nutrients, water, and other things like how the main branch would’ve normally grown
It might take some practice but you should be able to do that at home if both are compatible
[there’s this guy](https://youtu.be/5kO6-PpgZ1M) who’s grown over 40 different varieties of fruit onto a single tree, for apple trees you can buy 5 in 1, and I’ve even seen 7 in 1 apple trees where there’s 6 different varieties grafted onto a single tree
You can DIY! It’s just a matter of fusing two compatible plant tissues together. YouTube can help you get started with it. The most interesting to me is citrus trees, most lemons and oranges are grafted onto a hardier rootstock so they fruit much sooner than if they were grown from seed.
Fruit tree grafting is a technique of joining two different varieties of fruit trees together to create a new tree that has the desired characteristics of both. For example, you can graft a branch of a sweet apple variety onto a rootstock of a dwarf apple variety to get a small tree that produces sweet apples.
Grafting can be done at home with some basic tools and skills, but it requires some practice and patience.
You need scion wood from the desired variety and rootstock from a compatible variety. You cut both parts at an angle and join them together so that their cambium layers match. You secure and label the graft and wait for it to heal and grow.
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