That is great and I would try.

Rajinder

"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
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"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
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Virtually all domestic fruit trees are grafted onto a wild root stock.

So growing cutting from a favourite fruit tree will probably not produce
what you expect or want.

If you really want to propogate a favourite tree then you would need a
suitable rootstock to graft onto.

HTH
Dave R

Having just said that something has occured to me.
From time to time I remove shoots from various parts of the garden which
are
coming from the roots of fruit trees.

So....

If I dig up some of these 'suckers' and grow them on I should have the
rootstock of the tree.

I should then be able to graft from the tree onto the rootstock.

I could even graft onto the rootstock whilst it was still attached to the
parent tree if it came up in a suitable spot.

Sounds almost too easy (apart from the grafting).

Comments?
Dave R