Artist Prof. Sam Van Aken took this to the logical extreme with the Trees of 40 Fruit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_40_Fruit
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That is so cool! Thank you for sharing.
Fruit tree grafting is extremely easy. You can graft a twig from several apple varieties into one tree, letting that one tree self-pollinate.
Editing to elaborate a little:
Cut the twig at an angle, leaving as much cross section of exposed bark as possible. Then line it up with a cut branch on the tree so the cut bark joins up - if it can't heal it won't take. Then tape it up. I had a special kind of tape for the class but I don't think it matters so much as long as you can keep them joined.
Masking tape is the easiest tape to use for this. Buddy tape or grafting parafilm is the high end way.
Look up cleft grafting for the easiest most common graft Apples are super easy - not all fruit trees are though.
This some lothlorien shit
Sam Gamgee would like a word
Saw a pic of a house where a newlywed couple had each planted a sapling on either side of the front walkway then fused them together over the years so they formed a tree arch over the walkway leading into their home.
It’s nice that a couple can do that. Today I would say most newlyweds are still renting their land.
Adding lime branches onto a lemon tree to grow the Sprite Tree™.
Need carbonation branch
Need high fructose corn syrup branch
I have a couple of trees in my yard that are like this. The cherry has 4 different varieties, the pear has 4 and the apple has 3
We had a "fruit salad tree" growing up, it was all stone fruits-white peach, yellow peach, nectarine, plum, apricot, pluot. It was fun.
Fruit salad? Yummy yummy
It's fun to do it the healthy way! (Uh huh huh!)
Sounds like the Tree of 40 Fruits someone else mentioned.
Worth noting if you buy one of these grafted trees one fruit typically dominates production over the others.
https://raintreenursery.com/products/fruit-cocktail-4-varieties
$120 for a tree that can grow 4 separate fruits
I don't know I feel like half the fun would be seeing if you could do it yourself, then again some people just would like to own one I suppose
I'd love to try it but idk if I want to put in the years it would take to find out that I won or lost
I need to do this. Wonder if I can plant some fruit bearing trees to do this, lol.
Almost makes you wonder if you can do it with other plants, I bet you could make some cool succulent art like this
Couple of months ago I saw a YouTube video of someone doing a Willow tree limb fence by putting them in the ground at 45 degree angles and weaving them together. It looked awesome.
We need a weed tree of 40 strains.
You can graft pretty much any cactus to any other cactus.
It's pretty common to graft a slow growing cactus to the roots of a fast growing cactus to make it grow much faster.
I want to make a gazebo out of cherry trees.
Elden Ring, Oh Elden Ring.
God, thats so fucking cooooolll
In my country we have always done grafting on trees; especially citrus ones; in my backyard we have an organge tree with mandarin and lemon grafted on it; we also use wild peach saplings as a base to splice the domestic variety on it to make it more hardy
I've grafted a yellow orb plum onto my purple plum tree. Also a golden delicious apple onto my crabapple tree.