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What does Grafting actually mean?
Many of the roses and fruit trees sold are grafted
plants. Grafted plants are simply your desired
plants grown on top of a hardy rootstock. The top
part of the plant, the part that matters, is called
the scion. The scion bears all of the fruit,
flowers, or foliage that we want.
Grafted plants are beneficial because they serve to
increase variety, improve quality, and reduce
prices. The extra hardy rootstock ensures survival
for plants in zones that would normally be way too
cold, allowing you to grow plants which would
otherwise be off-limits. When a fruit tree is
grafted to a mature rootstock it allows fruit
production much sooner than if you had to wait for
the original roots to mature. You also know exactly
what you are getting. Your plant has been cloned and
will be exactly what you wanted. Clonal reproduction
is also much quicker than growing from seed, making
it more cost-effective.
Plants are grafted onto very similar plants, usually
of the same genus. Most Hybrid Tea roses are grafted
onto 'Dr. Huey', a hardy old rose with flat blooms
that are deep crimson with a golden center. You will
see them often at old home sites where the scions
have long died off, and the Dr. Huey rootstock has
flourished. All of our hardy roses are on their own
root (not grafted).
Often fruit trees are grafted onto strong, wild
versions of themselves. For example, there is pear
rootstock, which, left to it's own devices, would
grow tangled branches with nasty thorns. Our
standard apple trees are budded onto hardy crabapple
rootstock (Dolgo or Columbia). Our Dwarf apple trees
are budded onto Malling 26 and semi-dwarf onto
Malling 7 rootstock.
Some of our shrubs that have been made into
Tree-forms have been grafted onto hardy root stock,
and sometimes even grafted twice in order to get a
hardy stem. (eg some lilacs). We also have many tree
forms that have been grown as standards if they are
hardy enough (i.e. on their own root with one stem
selected and trained for the trunk).
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