Growing Apple Trees From Seed and Grafting on Root Stock
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Growing Apple Trees From Seed and Grafting on Root Stock. This is a response to my planting apple seeds in my grow room. Many people are growing apple trees from seed only to find disappointing results. In this video I'll explain why it is better to graft your scion onto a root stock For more growing info, gardening tips, indoor growing and more, visit us at http://www.growyourheirlooms.com
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I live in a subdivision that was mostly farm field 20 years ago. My property line on the east side of my back yard was the edge of the field (I know because there is a 100+ year old Northern Red Oak on our property. Back to the main point, there is an [unmaintained] apple tree on the east side of my backyard, presumably because the farmer threw an apple core in the woods at the edge of his field when he was done eating it. Many years after that (no less than 15 years after said apple core was thrown in the woods) in 1997, the farm was being sold to real estate developers, and my parents bought the half-acre property that happened to have that apple tree that grew from that core. At the time, nobody knew, even my parents who bought the lot, that there was a wild-growing apple on the property. After they had the house built on the property, we moved in, and several years later, discovered the apple tree on our land. After the neighbors cut out the European buckthorn, some of which was near the struggling apple tree, the tree started doing very well, and now, it produces beautiful, sweet-smelling blooms in the spring, and despite being a tree grown (unintentionally at that) from seed, the fruits are actually good-tasting. they're kind of like a macintosh apple (the pit was probably from a macintosh apple, therefore having 50% of its DNA from a macintosh), but there are some notable differences, but it still tastes good.
What's cool is that I have a one-of-a-kind apple tree, and I am therefore planning on growing a seed from it as a rootstock, to which I will eventually graft a scion cut from the same tree the seed was taken from, thereby reproducing the same tree.
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can i graft on something else than a rootstock. for example another tree similar to an apple tree
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1:29 JUMPDCARE
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I am extremely curious about growing my own apple trees from seed. From my understanding, I'm going to have to graft another apple tree into the current tree once it reaches a certain age?
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How do nurseries propagate the root stock?
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Actually, you can graft onto seedlings. In fact you get better root stocks from seed than from layering.
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So how did the first apple trees grow?
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Are the apples off the trees grown from seed eatable?
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What time of year do you want to do this?
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Where online did you order your rootstock exactly?
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Can you grow an apple tree from seed, and graft that plant onto your root stock and get an apple that was the same as the seed?
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At 1:29, a bug hits the camera and starts flying around... lol
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Excellent video however I think planting the graft that close to the soil runs the risk of the root stock taking over producing shoots. I'd plant it a little higher to be safe, but that's me.
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I just bought a organic dwarf hass avocado pit off Ebay and I'm already soaking, planning to sprout it, and have it grow up into a small tree.. The pit is from a dwarf avocado tree. Do I have to graft?? What about cherries? I'm very new to gardening. Any help would be awesome. Thanks.
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so true guy wish I can visit your apple farm you tell them guy
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we understand an its a two variety that you graft on ti get a gois quality apple to grade it bear early the seeds so true not produce what you want so you have to graft it or bud it i have a few seeds growing in my refrigator
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Is it the same for pear trees?
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all commercial rootstocks makes small trees even the non dwarfing ones, the best way to get a huge tree in your yard is to plant many apple seeds then choose the most vigorous seedling to plant as rootstock, after one or two years you graft your desired apple variety into.
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I understand what you're saying about grafting, but I still don't know how the rootstock is started.
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I totally disagree, I grow apples trees from seed and have great success with them.
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