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sparky

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« on: November 28, 2007, 13:12 »
I went to Aldi today and they had Crab apple trees for sale cheap. I tasted one of the fruits and it was rather sweet.
Now the crab apple tree that I know is by a small stream where I fish for trout and the fruits were very hard and sooooooooo sour they were inedible, as they might be good for wine can I graft a bit of the sour tree to the aldi sweet one and if so, How? :?

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WG.

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« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2007, 13:16 »
I've never tried grafting 'cos it looks fairly difficult.  What exactly are you trying to achieve here though?  Seems a lot simpler to plant the Aldi tree.  :)

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« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2007, 14:35 »
Seems he wants a cra* apple to make cra* wine. :roll:  :lol:
"Words... I know exactly what words I'm wanting to say, but somehow or other they is always getting squiff-squiddled around." R Dahl

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« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2007, 14:38 »
On second thought it might be already grafted, so you could just try and let the suckers grow? :shock:

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sparky

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« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2007, 01:23 »
Actually I wanted the sour apples and was wondering if it's possible to have them grow with a graft on the same tree as the sweet ones. :)

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« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2007, 09:36 »
Quote from: "sparky"
Actually I wanted the sour apples and was wondering if it's possible to have them grow with a graft on the same tree as the sweet ones. :)

I think so you can buy family trees like this.

How you do it though I have no idea.
But you could buy this
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/suttonelms/apple26.html
or this
http://www.appleluscious.com/orchard/grafting.html

I have no idea if this works I just goggled it.

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« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2007, 09:41 »
Yes, it's perfectly possible to grow different fruits on the same tree, I thought you wanted to revert it to another one. (Sorry about silly pun)

He probably doesn't want to buy them at such prices they come with, London.

Bad news is I'm useless at grafting, but I'm sure someone else will know, what to do. :)

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« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2007, 10:38 »


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