Even when fruit trees belong to the same genus ... apple tree from seed and ended up with a wild apple, you can graft desirable apple cultivars onto If you're buying scions, all you have to ...

Grafting is useful for multiplying clones (genetically identical plants), whether the clone is a ‘McIntosh’ apple, a ‘Sargent’ cherry, or some nameless apple tree bearing tasty fruits.

That scar is an artifact of a process called grafting, or fusing two separate pieces of wood into a new tree. From citrus to peaches, almost all fruit trees are grafted, and so are pecans.

Seeds from the fruit won’t grow into trees when planted. Instead, new red delicious trees are propagated by grafting part of the apple tree onto the rootstock of a different tree. Growing ...