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Grafting to a nonfruiting plum tree

segreenb
9 years ago

My parents planted a plum tree maybe five or six years ago, it fruited the first and maybe the second year we had it but it hasn't fruited since. It's about eight feet tall and the trunk is around 3-3.5" thick maybe more. We're unsure why it has stopped fruiting, and recently my dad pruned it quite aggressively (I think some branches may have been damaged so he removed them.)

Anyway does this sound like it would be a good candidate to graft onto? My concern is that since it isn't fruiting that maybe if I graft on some scions they wont fruit either because the rootstock is unhealthy. Also I read that all members of the Prunus genus are compatible, is this the case in practice? If so I would love to put cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, and pluots on the same tree.

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