Horticulturists have had a lot of fun creating fruit cocktail trees, which is a single tree that bears a variety of different fruit. The concept of creating a fruit cocktail tree is simple. It’s done through grafting limbs of different fruit trees all onto a single common stalk or tree that functions as the base [...]
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Grafts vs. Seeds
Fruit trees sold by nurseries today are reproduced almost entirely by asexual means (grown from grafts of the parent tree). The reason for this is because fruit farmers want to reproduce the same characteristics of the type fruit they are growing on all their trees. In other words, a Jonagold apple from one tree needs [...]
Dwarfing in Fruit Trees
A lot of fruit trees these days are sold as miniatures, dwarfs, or semi-dwarfs. The reasons for the production of reduced-size fruit trees are many: 1) they’re easier to maintain in general (you have less tree to prune, fertilize, water, etc.), 2) they produce fruit sooner and more often, 3) they produce superior fruit altogether, [...]
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