Another way to change your existing fruit tree's variety is to use cleft grafting (which is called topworking). You can use this method on the truck of younger trees, and if the tree is older ...

Learn how to graft trees that grow multiple fruits and the benefits of why graft trees are worth it. Grafting is the joining together of two living plant parts so that the whole grows as one plant.

Fruit trees invariably consist of a rootstock ... of the “V” or “double V” grafting technique, also known as cleft grafting. With this technique, you remove a 3-inch to 4-inch shoot ...

I could use a no-sweat technique called cleft grafting to transform something as unpromising as a “crabber” into a veritable apple factory. The time for grafting apple trees is just before the ...

That scar is an artifact of a process called grafting, or fusing two separate pieces of wood into a new tree. From citrus to peaches, almost all fruit trees are grafted, and so are pecans.

Tino shows how easy it is to have a go at grafting your own fruit trees at home. Grafting requires two types of plant material - a root stock and a scion. Rootstock is the 'bottom' of the plant ...

Spring means cherry, pear and apple blossoms. But in many metropolitan areas, urban foresters ensure those flowering fruit trees don't bear fruit to keep fallen fruit from being trampled into ...

In addition to gardening, he has grown and pruned fruit trees, including over 30 years experience grafting. In 2010, he returned to the Pacific Northwest after ten years in Colorado, where he ...

So with the economy dragging, why not turn public trees into a source of free fruit? In San Francisco, a group of renegade agriculturalists called Guerrilla Grafters are doing just that, grafting ...