The rootstock should be planted one year before grafting to allow the plant to establish before the stress of propagation. Rootstock trees for apple are often smaller dwarf or semi-dwarf varieties.

Gardeners use grafting to repair damaged trees and facilitate new growth. Learn the basics for grafting fruit trees.

With most common fruit trees, certain rootstocks result in smaller than normal plants (think dwarf and semi-dwarf apple trees) or improved cold-hardiness. Propagation via cuttings cannot provide ...

Apple tree clones are created by taking a pruned “sucker” or new year’s stem of growth from the original tree and grafting it to rootstock. Rootstock is apple grown from seed, and it is available from ...

Among all fruit trees, the apple tree likely reigns supreme. From legendary tales of Johnny Appleseed spreading seeds across the land to the classic saying about keeping the doctor away, and even ...

You will need to start with a young tree (usually one year old) that is grafted onto miniature or dwarf rootstock. You will also need a spur-bearing variety of apple, which means it produces fruit ...

Graft by graft, John Bunker is preserving Maine’s rich apple history For 45 years, the self-taught Palermo man has been resurrecting heritage apple varieties, for posterity and for long ...

Grafting apple trees workshop set for Farmington March 28 Participants will use specialized tools to graft young trees to take home.

Twelve-year-old Milo Weinberg remembers the apple tree at Cambridge’s Tobin Montessori School like an old friend. He played around its trunk for years. He learned to ride his bike around it. And ...