I saved my peach tree...

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.

[ethanwagner]

It's crazy how we can literally Frankenstein similar plants together.

[eduarddvorecky]

Also often times root stock wants to grow more than what's grafted onto it, so if you don't cut it, it will outgrow graft and it would die due to being outcompeted.

[_Skim_Beeble]

In Australia, most citrus varieties are grafted onto Flying Dragon. It's a Chinese sour orange.

[livingroomtelevision]

Thank you for educating us about trimming the growth below the graft point. I’m sure you have saved some of us from ending up with inedible fruit and not having a clue what happened.

[jean-lucpicard]

Had a Meyer lemon tree die in my yard after i let the undergrowth get out of hand, the graft grew and now it's a grapefruit tree. Frankly i miss my Meyer lemons but i do love grapefruit every winter as well

[eligoldman]

I have this really old non graphed apple tree on my parent’s property and while the apples suck to eat, they make fantastic hard cider.

[Seana]

And when you complete the work you can sit back with some cha-mom-a-lee tea! Bahaha!

[diablominero]

Prunus cerasifera is a common stonefruit rootstock, and also makes delicious fruit.

[haleyhapgood]

This helped me a lot my lil peach tree is just like this now I know how to fix it thanks to u

[drivestowork]

I live in Nebraska so the rootstock has to be freeze hardy superzilla!
My mom planted 3 GORGEOUS pink tea roses on the south side of the house... they produced pure delight for several years until 1 bad winter killed all 3 of the graft stalks.
There's only one left alive now and it produces some really weird, but pretty, really short-lived and gangly, spindly roses that grow over 8 ft tall!

I have a neighbor that complains when I stack them up to keep from mowing over them! Says there's dead wood in my plant!?
Yet doesn't hesitate to steal the flowers!
A couple years ago it even started producing rose hips!? I'd never seen that before!

[joeyd.staats]

OR you could propagate those root stocks then later get another kind of peaches and graft them to your new propagated root stock. You could also grow the root stalk and make cuts in the stems to collect the sap and turn it into candy. Collecting sap can happen all year long

[susan]

We have Italian prunes trees that are descendants of those my father-in-law planted in the 1940s. They were never grafted, so anything that comes from them are true

[XenXenOfficial]

Wait. Does that mean I can grab a rootstalk of one fruit tree, attach another fruit tree, and get the both of best worlds lol

[GothCookie]

Can you do a video about how to graft and which varieties to choose?

[jasonjones]

Leave one, it's a pollinater and it could be a decent edible fruit. And if the graft has problems and the "good" tree dies you have rooted rootstock to graft something else on.

[WGSMRW]

"Take a look at this peach tree






It's the only one I've got"

[Fireatank]

Question .. if you can harvest the bottom sucker with roots, can you then graft on the same fruit back on to double the number of trees???
❤😊😊😊😊

[abaddon]

Same thing with Roses. Majority of grafted roses have Dr. Huey as a rootstock which can quickly overtake if not buried or pruned correctly.

[kenwinger]

Fun fact if you're really really good you can actually weave those back down into the root and create a thicker more composited root structure that creates massive fruit😅

[katzunkaimoto]

Most grafting happens for when you want a tree to produce much faster and have the same fruit as one of your trees you like most