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Thursday, 11 February 2016
UNDERSTANDING OF GRAFTING AND BUDDING
What Is grafting?
Figure 1. A budded apple shoot completely wrapped with rubber budding strips.
Figure 2. A cleft graft covered with asphalt grafting compound
The seed from a Haralson apple will produce an apple tree, but it will not produce a Haralson apple tree. Likewise, the seed from a Honeygold apple will not produce a Honeygold apple tree. In other words, fruit trees cannot be reproduced "true" to the original cultivar from seed. They can only be reproduced by grafting
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