Thursday, December 8, 2011

Is it true that grafting a branch from one fruit tree to another fruit tree will make a hybrid fruit?

Like if you took a branch from a pear tree and grafted it to an apple tree would your tree start producing "papples" from that branch?|||Nope, assuming it worked you'd get pears. The purpose of grafting is to put a fruiting branch on a strong durable trunk. For example they graft sweet oranges on a bitter orange trunk because the bitter orange trunk is tougher. And they remove the bitter orange branches because most people don't like bitter oranges.





Or they might cut off a sick branch and graft in an extra healthy branch from another tree.|||No. Fruit trees are often grafted onto heartier tree stocks so they can survive harsher climates, but the type of fruit that results in not a hybrid.

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