Growing Apples: How to Grow Apple Trees

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1. How do you graft? As in how do you get the root system?
2. interesting video. I'm just curious what kind of yield they get per tree especially if they let them fruit so young and grow them so close together. 
3. But what about the story of Johnny Appleseed who plated Apple seeds everywhere and the story goes he had apple trees by the thousands all over and everyone enjoyed the fruits
4. my 2 dwarf Cherry trees show no sign of where they were connected the two trees together, is this normal. It looks like a perfectly straight tree trunk. Is there another method in which they joined the two trees together at the nursery?
   
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5. Pretty sure each variety came from a seed
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7. Well that is good to hear. At least we know that the apples we buy at the store are not GMO although they are still laden with chemicals. Thanks for your advice on the wild apple grafting. So if I find roots coming out of the ground around these wild apples, can I not craft cuttings onto this or does the root stock have to be a different variety? Thanks!
8. Hi JoeConEd, you can take seed and plant it but you may not get the same type of apple. You may, but you may not. Also trees growing the wild that are not pruned or fertilised or thinned may crop every two years or so not every year.
9. I've made some other comments... but the short answer is no - you can't modify the seeds and do away with the need to graft. If you wanted to grow wild varieties and get 'what you get' then go ahead a plant seed but the results will be inconsistent in terms of fruiting/crops. If you find a particular variety of 'wild' fruit then you can take cuttings and graft that to root stocks to clone them. You can't clone from seed.
10. SweetDiversions,I've made some comments that might help.
11. I've posted a few comments that might help.
12. The reason they root stock is separate to the variety is due to the nature of the hormone activity in the plant and how this effects growth. Vigor and fruiting must be balanced. Think of the root stock as a foundation for the plant and the grafted wood the style. You get root stocks from a nursery or you can experiment growing your own from seed or striking from a cutting from a stock.
13. This comment is a response to an number of questions asked about root stocks. Root stocks are the same species - 'Malus domestica' from the family 'Roseaceae'. 'Domestica' because they have been bred and cross bred for thousands of years. Root stock likely originated from mutations of Malus sp. that showed certain growth characteristics. Over the years they've been bred for characteristics like the apple wood has for varieties, but they are separate.
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16. Yes , the mysterious root stock. It sort of begs the question if you had the root stock in the first place then why not let it grow its own branches. Probably an obvious answer awaits.
17. I've seen so many grafting videos but NO ONE has yet to say where you get the root stock and if the root stock is the same plant species.
18. Hey I had a similiar question. I guess you question has gone unanswered so far? Please let me know if you find out. Thanks!
19. Are any domestic apple trees of today the product of GMO/genetic manipulation,and if so is it possible to modify the seeds to produce the same variety everytime to do away with the need to graft?On a separate question do you know anyone that has started an orchard using wild tree varieties?I read that they make the best wine,but I have never scene a wild tree orchard.I know many places in the countryside with wild apples that are of the pleasant sweet variety & wanted to clone them. any thoughts
20. where do you get the root stock?