http://www.extension.umn.edu/topics....5&subtopic=152

The above is one site I found with good descriptions and several different
ways to graft. I have also just read you can plant two different type of
trees in the one hole, to save space, and have the benefit of them being
able to cross polinate each other.

regards Loretta


"Dwayne" wrote in message
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One other possibility if you have the room, is to buy another tree (if you
have the room). I love the pink ladies you mentioned. Keep in mind what
you want to do with them. Red delicious are not much good for cooking or
canning, but are delicious for eating fresh. I have eaten golden
delicious fresh and canned them. They also make good applesauce. Granny
smith are a great cooking apple, but I don't care for them fresh, and I
have to add too much sugar when canning (I am diabetic). If you order a
dwarf tree, it wont take up much room and will still pollinate.

I tried to graft buds from my two pear trees on each other (3 or 4 buds on
each tree) and they all died. I did it when the new leaves were coming
out and plenty of sap was flowing. No one here knows how to do it
anymore, so I have no one locally to help me. The one person who told me
cut a parallel slit in the bark about an inch long. Then he cut two 1/2
inch slits perpendicular to the first, one on each end of it. Then he
carefully opened each flap. Then he cut the bud off of a sucker growing
on the tree he wanted to graft to the original one, and cut it wide and
long enough to fit inside the flaps. Then he put the bud cutting inside
the flaps, folded them over and used some masking tape to hold it in
place. His worked, mine died. He lives about 400 miles from here, and I
wont see him until Oct, when I will ask him again.

Dwayne

"Loretta" wrote in message
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Hello, we bought a Golden Delicious apple tree yesterday and need to
graft another type of apple onto it to pollinate it, as we only have the
one tree. Is there some particular spot that we would make the graft? And
how big a piece would you suggest the new piece be please?

regards Loretta