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[โ€“] TheSun 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is so interesting! When I was growing up we had a small orchard in our backyard with a wide variety of apples, plums, pears, etc. We used to do something similar and give out cuttings to anyone who asked so there's clones of those trees all over the area as far as 3-ish hours away that I know of. When us kids grew up my parents sold the house but my Dad took cuttings from all the different apple trees and spliced them onto a root stock at the new house to make hybrids with all the varieties from our old house. Unfortunately my parents both passed and before my partner and I were able to move back to the family home someone who was helping us out with the yard work ran over the hybrid-apple tree with the riding lawn mower ๐Ÿ˜‘ so its no longer with us either.

[โ€“] LibertyLizard 4 points 1 year ago

Very cool story but sad ending. Iโ€™ve seen many a tree lost to lawn mowers unfortunately. Maybe you could try reaching out to some of those people who your dad gifted trees to and see if you could bring them back?