Antonio Vargas Mendes thins fruit from an apple tree at Devoto Gardens & Orchards near Sebastopol in June 2021. With grafting, you can get multiple varieties of fruit on one tree, like Luther ...

Apple tree propagation involves a method called grafting. Grafting is the process of taking a base plant (rootstock) and attaching your desired plant (scion) to the top so the roots are one plant ...

Apple trees grown from seed aren't identical to the parent trees and have smaller, inferior fruit. Grafting is a more successful approach.

Grafting fruit trees - combining two or more different trees into one - is a fun undertaking for gardeners. Here's everything you need to know about it.

Build a better fruit tree for far less cost by grafting scion wood to rootstock.

Growing From Seed or Graft You can try and grow an apple tree from seed, but Canney warns against it.

Learn how to grow your own antique apple trees at Garfield Farm Museum's 21st annual Apple Tree Grafting Seminar at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Participants take home three tree grafts of heirloom nursery ...

For beginners, Bohan recommends apple, peach, nectarine and cherry varieties. They’re easy to work with, and grafts grow onto the host tree or rootstock with little effort.

GRAFTING is the method of getting a branch or bud from a mature tree and joining it with the stem of a young plant, belonging to the same or closely related plant species.

People have been grafting apple trees for thousands of years, ever since the fruit was domesticated. “It’s an ancient technique,” says Julie Sawtelle, who will be co-teaching a free workshop ...

Instead of your old tree producing tiny crabapples that just litter the lawn come autumn, the same tree can be altered to produce one or even several different varieties of superlative eating apples.

The great thing about working with plants and plant people is watching things grow and observing how they change. It seems I learn so much everyday, just from talking with ...