Grafting trees is a skill should learn. I graft nearly 3000 times per year and while you don’t have to do that money, even learning to do a couple every year cannot only allow you to grow tons more food, cultivate new varieties, but also save tons of money on fruit trees! 
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@1:30 you should check your math….. the apple genome is only about 42,000 to 57,000 genes.
while highly unlikely in a single human lifespan, you still could get another granny smith apple with enough iterations; probably a significantly smaller number than the "number of grains of sands)
Very interesting. How does pollination work with making specific types of apples and grafting?
As someone who’s been breeding plants now for 19yrs I can assure you if you grew a seed from any variety of apple say 10 seeds at least 1 would be very similar. It would be like 4-5 uniformly looking with mixed traits. 4-5 anomilis with possible recessive traits and 1-2 very similar to the plant you grew the seed from. If you grew 100 you would definitely find at least 3 that were almost the exact same and a bunch of that were most likely better.
I also live in community beside the salt water and we have wild apply trees close to 100 and more appearing every year that were never planted here. Apples that drift in the sea from apple trees from who knows where originally, land on the shoreline at the highest tides then germinate at some point either there or where an animal drops them. Out of all those wild trees only 1 has small apples I would be able to call a crab apple.
Everyone says if you grow apples from seed chances are you’ll get a crab apple yet we have all these trees and now those trees have made more trees and so on and so forth yet we have 1 crab apple? Statistically that would debunk the claim. I’m hoping to do a video of all the trees this summer and show all the apples floating in the bay at high tide. The apples are growing out of straight rocks in some places right beside the salt water.
This up and down temps are RUDE to my perennials😂😂.
And my body!!!!
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Fascinating fact about open pollination – who knew…? Oh, that's right: MIgardener. I will never graft a tree today, tomorrow, or during the remainer of my life. Nonetheless, I watched this entire video in rapt fascination. You are a natural teacher, Luke, and your honest enthusiasm truly elevates all your videos. Thank you for sharing, and best of luck with all the grafts. Cheers.
Thanks for adding this video with all the info on grafting in one place. I grafted 20 apple trees this March watching your older videos multiple times to make sure I was doing it right!
Could you keep the portions of the rootstock you cut off, and start more rootstock with those cuttings?
Would love to see more videos like this. Do you graft tomatoes on to a root stock? Would be a great video!
Luke, could you do a follow-up to this later on so we can see how they took?