If it’s your first time growing fruit trees, you might be surprised to find out that almost all fruit trees are grafted, meaning they are actually TWO fruit trees! The first is the rootstock, which is below the soil. Rootstocks can have different properties, most commonly height – dwarf, semi-dwarf, and standard.
Then, you have the fruit you actually want to grow, which is grafted TO the rootstock and grows above ground.
The problem happens when the rootstock starts to grow shoots ABOVE ground. These are NOT the variety you want, and you should remove them ASAP.
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And if you listen to idiots like this you will learn nothing. There are varieties that bring just fine fruits, only graft when needed.
I was bout to cut one the other day and my mom pruned it off before I could…
Thanks for this very helpful information.
Its super timely for me.
I just bought my first fruit tree (Methley Plum) a couple of days ago (Happy 🌍 Day Y'all 😊) and I wanna know EVERYTHING I need to, to make sure it grows healthily.
Thanks again for the awesome content.
❤ Be blessed, Spread LOVE
Bro actually selling fruit trees for $100 jfc. Does he think his viewers are suckers?
Seems like if you just left one you could potentially end up with another rootstock graftling, am I wrong?
This has been happening to my fruit trees, good to know that I can just cut it off instead of trying to making another tree
I saw the same thing with a lemon tree. The rootstock growth was all spiky!!
have u thinned tour peach tree yet? i am not sure what time i am supposed to do that. when its flowering or when it has fruit buds
Epic tip
It's crazy how we can literally Frankenstein similar plants together.