Also grafted trees are not clones to their parents. You are adding two parts distinctively together making it a hybrid tree. Sorry to mention but they do not carry the same exact fruit as their parents neither. It is simply impossible for hybrids to turn into their exact genetic offspring. True cloning comes from tissue culture not grafting
LUVIT thanks for sharing! Just do what you can do. I appreciate experience of others, but also value my own experience that's grown from experimenting on my own. So many falsehoods out there, even from "the experts". Great job, I appreciate your down to earth channel
That's simply just doesn't make sense in the idea of a tree. A tree lives its life in the longevity, so over a period of time, it becomes successful in its life, but that takes time. It actually makes sense to me to take a sapling of 3 years and putting a graft of a new on top of it because the established growth of the root structure of that sapling is going to be more resilient and more established to take in the nutrients necessary for rapid growth. I think what they meant when they said that was old growth as in an old old tree which may have diseases and a lack of ability of bringing nutrients to newer branches. This usually happens in fruit trees when they become root bound or they haven't the proper soil for having nutrition to bear fruit and they catch fungus or other diseases that prevent fruiting.
My husband breaks the rules all the time. He rescued a tomato from horrible curly leaf disease by replanting it in clay like soil combined with charcoal from our fire pit. It not only lived. It's grown. And now it's flowering.
We also rescued all of our zuccinni bushes this year after the naughty bugs blew a hole through the stems to get out.
We also transplanted 2 ft tall corn this year, and it produced just fine…
AND we interplanted sunflowers in several beds; no negativr impact.
All of these are rules I never would have broken because I know it all 🤣
I love it when someone says…”you can’t do that in the garden….” because I’m like “LETS TRY IT” Ppl love sounding smart and all they have is secondhand knowledge.
I went out and bought two bell pepper starters right before seeing your video about not doing that. I tried every diy hack to start from seeds with zero success. I'm not swimming in bell peppers but they've been fruitful. So you're absolutely right 😂
This is in no way throwing shade. I still love your content and I've had good success with everything I bought from you.
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Are you planning to start selling grafted starters online?
Also grafted trees are not clones to their parents. You are adding two parts distinctively together making it a hybrid tree. Sorry to mention but they do not carry the same exact fruit as their parents neither. It is simply impossible for hybrids to turn into their exact genetic offspring. True cloning comes from tissue culture not grafting
I would think older growth = healthier, even if it's slower growing, because it's been exposed to more.
I love experimenting in the garden!
A sample size of one is not a true experiment.Maybe you are right. Maybe you just got lucky.
LUVIT thanks for sharing! Just do what you can do. I appreciate experience of others, but also value my own experience that's grown from experimenting on my own. So many falsehoods out there, even from "the experts". Great job, I appreciate your down to earth channel
From the size of the pot they’re in I think the fruit stock on the three-year-old might be root bound
That's simply just doesn't make sense in the idea of a tree. A tree lives its life in the longevity, so over a period of time, it becomes successful in its life, but that takes time. It actually makes sense to me to take a sapling of 3 years and putting a graft of a new on top of it because the established growth of the root structure of that sapling is going to be more resilient and more established to take in the nutrients necessary for rapid growth. I think what they meant when they said that was old growth as in an old old tree which may have diseases and a lack of ability of bringing nutrients to newer branches. This usually happens in fruit trees when they become root bound or they haven't the proper soil for having nutrition to bear fruit and they catch fungus or other diseases that prevent fruiting.
What's the point of grafting trees?
My husband breaks the rules all the time. He rescued a tomato from horrible curly leaf disease by replanting it in clay like soil combined with charcoal from our fire pit. It not only lived. It's grown. And now it's flowering.
We also rescued all of our zuccinni bushes this year after the naughty bugs blew a hole through the stems to get out.
We also transplanted 2 ft tall corn this year, and it produced just fine…
AND we interplanted sunflowers in several beds; no negativr impact.
All of these are rules I never would have broken because I know it all 🤣
I love it when someone says…”you can’t do that in the garden….” because I’m like “LETS TRY IT”
Ppl love sounding smart and all they have is secondhand knowledge.
I went out and bought two bell pepper starters right before seeing your video about not doing that. I tried every diy hack to start from seeds with zero success. I'm not swimming in bell peppers but they've been fruitful. So you're absolutely right 😂
This is in no way throwing shade. I still love your content and I've had good success with everything I bought from you.
Thank you Luke for share this knowledge