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Tue, Jul 1, 14 at 8:14
| I have never grafted a tree ever. I understand the process of the actual grafting of the scion to the root stock. How do i actually create more trees for myself though. Am i not just replacing the tree whose root i am using? I have an apple tree that the top isnt the best and i was going to take a different trees scions and graft to it and see what happens. in the end what i really want is to produce like 5 more trees. How do i get to that point? |
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| You will need root stock to graft onto. You can buy root stock from a nursery, giving you a choice of attributes best for your needs. You can grow your own by planting seeds from apples, taking a chance on what you get. Probably producing a tree that will take twice as long to bear the first apple. May also grow 30 feet tall. Al |
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| Check out YouTube. Stephen Hayes has a lot of videos for a noob. I never knew a thing about grafting until this spring and watched his videos. Three months later I'm now top working my 60 year of tree and made it a 5 in 1 with an additional 4 varieties probably next year. I also have several rootstock trees that I've made into a stooling bed and did a bench graft on another (about ~90 percent success for everything!). All of this was primarily with info from Stephens channel. It's actually really good and very accessible to a complete rookie! |
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