Why graft fruit trees

Posted by Lorraine Barnett on February 7, 2011 at 10:41am

I've been doing a lot of reading about grafting fruit trees, however so far there has been no real explanation as to why??

If you have a very good apple or pear for exaample why not just take a cutting to grow?? Surely this would grow as fast as anything grafted??

 Anyone have any ideas??

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  • Lorraine Barnett February 11, 2011 at 6:09am
    Oh, thanks for that! My other thoughts have been if I were to buy an heirloom/Heritage tree that has been grafted and how would I know about the root stock! I'm learning each day and I thank you for taking the time to reply!
  • Richard Watson February 7, 2011 at 8:37pm

    In my 40 tree orchard there 10 apples,out of the ten only two are grafted,the rest are sucker,cutting and seedling grown,half of the 8 fruit and fruit really well,so i don't believe that they have to be grafted at all.

    Where grafted trees come into there own is when they are put onto dwarf stock this really suits the small section owner

    This is a sucker from a really nice roadside apple

    http://i416.photobucket.com/albums/pp247/Medburygardens/Picture1051...

    Another young sucker of a red/sweet roadside seedling apple

    http://i416.photobucket.com/albums/pp247/Medburygardens/Picture1048...

     

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