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Posted by: grajac

2nd Oct 2011 04:17pm

My hobby is propagation of any plants. I am reasonably successful in most areas but have found that fruit trees (including citrus) and roses have me beaten because I cannot find which base plant ( The one with a strong root system) is the best to use to graft on the various type of fruit I am trying to develop, I know that apples need an apple variety, peaches etc need another type but the books I have found list many of these with a code suggestion of which variety is best to graft onto what base. ( I think) .Please correct me if I am wrong.

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Anonymous
  • 18th Mar 2014 12:06am

I have an avocado tree (kind of old) in a pot and it's a few years old now. We'd like it to produce some avocados at some point (preferably in our lifetime!!) Please help with suggestions. And we have a mango tree (young) in the ground that each year tries to produce some mangoes here and there but has only one year produced about two or three good ones. Most years the mangoes drop off!

Suzitonto
  • 27th May 2013 08:22pm

Regarding roses - a dog-rose ( in other words, primitive variety) is usually the root stock. Look for them on roadsides - cultivated roses that propagate by seed as ferals revert. You must make sure that once grafted, no growth is allowed from below the graft, or it will dominate and the graft will die.

As for apples, I once had an apple tree with 5 varieties on it. That was much too many, but I didn't do it! The tree was a granny smith, with the other varieties grafted on to it. I believe you can just buy a sapling of one of the varieties you want, then graft to that, but don't go above 4 varieties in total.

Tylerrr23
  • 21st May 2013 04:53pm

You are too right my friend, just think of the time you can concieve. Will it matter for you when you can't be there for all of you plants?

chookybo
  • 1st Nov 2011 04:46pm

Thanks for that. The tree is reasonably small as it is tri-planted. It is planted with two other healthy peach trees which do produce fruit. One of the reasons for tri-planting is that the trees have one point for fertilize and water. They are pruned as if they are one tree but are three separate trees. They all get plenty of sun.

chookybo
  • 1st Nov 2011 04:03pm

I can't answer your question but have a question of my own to you. You say you are good with propagation - well I have a peach tree (just posted a post about it) which is 5 years old and has not until this year produced any flowers. This year it produced 8 flowers but no fruit. If it does not produce fruit by next year I am thinking of either pulling it out or grafting it. Can you help me with the correct way to graft onto it and where do I get the graft to do this?

grajac
  • 22nd May 2013 12:00pm
I can't answer your question but have a question of my own to you. You say you are good with propagation - well I have a peach tree (just posted a post about it) which is 5 years old and has not...

This relates to my problem __not knowing what the bass plant is-- "The plant you use to graft onto". You have the plant so what I would do is check out around me and find someone with a peach tree that gives a lot of fruit and use a cutting from that tree to your tree. It depends on the size of your tree --I have never had a graft onto a larger bass tree than about 11/2 cm s and would use a "v" cut on both pieces and make sure the the cuttings match up .Important to be sterile and use a very sharp knife

grajac
  • 1st Nov 2011 04:33pm
I can't answer your question but have a question of my own to you. You say you are good with propagation - well I have a peach tree (just posted a post about it) which is 5 years old and has not...

My interest is in propagation and i do not know a lot about fruit producing.

If it was my tree I would check its position in relation to sun and water making sure it is well feed in autumn /winter

If still no fruit I would probably remove it
Leave the bottom 20 cms and v cut the trunk and place desired tree to fit your graft making sure the cambian part is in contact Larger trees I have never tried i only do 12 months old rooted cuttings
Grafts can be obtained from healthy producing fruit trees (neighbors etc)
Hoping this is some help Use your local book mobile for books with detailed methods for grafting

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