Heirloom Fruit Tree Grafting Methods

Used in

• Chapter 7 The Orchard and the Wild

The rows that check it

• 13 confirmed
• 1 marked for safety

• O10 confirmed Safety Pear on quince: prunasin → HCN at union kills join; unknown wild roots may do the same
• O13 confirmed Standard on wild/seedling root: first fruit ~8–10 yr ("up to a decade"), life 80–120 yr, carbon peak at 18 yr; dwarf orchards replanted every 15–25 yr
• O15 confirmed Apple gametophytic self-incompatibility; seedlings never true; Tian Shan / Malus sieversii; Silk Road
• O18 confirmed M9 East Malling 1910s, most planted, one third size, fruits yr 2–3, permanent support; cavitation on sand; Gala/Elstar/Rubinette fail without fertigation
• O20 confirmed Malus sylvestris: smooth leaf underside, small sour fruit, sometimes thorny; ~30 % hybrids in N. Britain, ID fails 36 %
• O22 confirmed Apple pips need 2–3 months cold stratification; graftable at pencil thickness in a year
• O23 confirmed Pear on Pyrus pyraster (dry sand); cherry on P. avium or P. mahaleb (dry lime); plum on P. cerasifera or P. spinosa (suckers)
• O24 confirmed Healing calendar 0–3, 5–14, 15–20, 21–45+ days; cambium one cell layer
• O25 confirmed Scion collection Dec–Feb, pencil-thick one-year wood, store 1–4 °C damp; graft late Mar–Apr at bud swell with dormant scion
• O26 confirmed Whip-and-tongue cuts (3–4 cm, tongue one third down), cleft with two wedge scions, chip bud in late summer; tape and wax
• O28 confirmed Localised incompatibility (Honeycrisp/G41 snaps) and translocated (5 yr, leaf curl, reddening, dieback)
• O29 confirmed Streuobstwiese 8–10 m, Hochstamm trunk 1.8 m, hay/sheep; rarest landscape
• O33 confirmed Three varieties; triploid needs three others in same/adjacent RHS group

In the Index

The orchard and its fruit Wild food and game