My father enjoys grafting plants, he has an apple tree with 15 types of apples on it. Come to find out he’s been snipping tiny branches off apple trees at Home Depot…
I honestly wonder if I went to an orchard if they would be able to give me a price to let me just graft their different trees. I don’t want to wait 7+ years for many fruit trees. Grafted trees from what I’ve seen can often produce fruit in 2-3 years
I recently moved and plan to buy a bunch of cheap apple plants from a big store and get them rooted this year. Then next spring take all the choice varieties from my father/childhood and graft them into the plants for my kids :)
That’s dope, and great parenting. I’ve always been enamored with apple trees and plants in general. But I love apples. Those newish cosmic crisp apples? I’ll eat those until I get sick 🤣
If anybody wants a good cosmic horror book about apples trees and their strange fruits I can wholly recommend Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig. It was a strange, interesting ride.
They might sell you something, but those branches took a lot of time and care to grow and mean profit for the farmer. You may be able to find an abandoned farm or a group of people who are preserving apple varieties to go branches from.
My father enjoys grafting plants, he has an apple tree with 15 types of apples on it. Come to find out he’s been snipping tiny branches off apple trees at Home Depot…
That’s awesome.
Honestly, grafting plants is like fucking alchemy in my mind. That shit is crazy.
Tissue culture protocols are basically modern druidic alchemy.
I honestly wonder if I went to an orchard if they would be able to give me a price to let me just graft their different trees. I don’t want to wait 7+ years for many fruit trees. Grafted trees from what I’ve seen can often produce fruit in 2-3 years
I recently moved and plan to buy a bunch of cheap apple plants from a big store and get them rooted this year. Then next spring take all the choice varieties from my father/childhood and graft them into the plants for my kids :)
That’s dope, and great parenting. I’ve always been enamored with apple trees and plants in general. But I love apples. Those newish cosmic crisp apples? I’ll eat those until I get sick 🤣
If anybody wants a good cosmic horror book about apples trees and their strange fruits I can wholly recommend Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig. It was a strange, interesting ride.
They might sell you something, but those branches took a lot of time and care to grow and mean profit for the farmer. You may be able to find an abandoned farm or a group of people who are preserving apple varieties to go branches from.