enigma wrote:

apples are commonly grafted though. i almost bought a orchard
in upstate NY, where all the trees in one block had just been
regrafted to the new popular varieties. what they do is cut
off the entire crown & then quarter cut the trunk about an
inch, putting in 4 grafts of the latest fad & covering the
graft with beeswax. that way you have trees bearing full tilt
in one year, rather than waiting 5 years for seedlings to get
established... you can also graft 2 or more varieties on one
trunk to save on space. (the reason i didn't buy was 15 acres
was under high tension powerlines & 50+ acres just behind the
orchard & right next to the spring that supplied the farm's
water had been sold to a developer. looked like a headache in
the making).
at any rate, i know apples can be grafted as scions and can
be bud grafted.

Apples are best done with a whip and tongue, cleft graft, etc. in
the Spring time. Bud grafting is commonly done on things like stone
fruits in the Summer time.

i just don't know which is a better idea with
the crabapple. my hopeful rootstock tree is not producing
apples. it had a cedar tree right next to it (which the llamas
kindly ate, stopping the cedar-apple rust issue)

Just for the record, it is not Cedar trees which give apple
cedar rust, but Junipers. The Eastern Red-Cedars are miss-named ,
because they are really in the Juniper family (Juniperus virginiana).
Keep all Junipers away from your apple trees.

Sherwin

& hasn't been
pruned in over 15 years. i'm working on getting it in some
kind of reasonable health currently.
lee
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