Grafting of trees is one of the ways of their reproduction. Placing a branch of one tree (graft) on the other (rootstock), we can create in this way a completely unusual plant. Usually the vaccination is used for fruit trees: pears, apple trees, quinces, apricots, peaches, plums, etc. At the same time, the resulting hybrid, for example, plums and cherry plums will yield fruit of both kinds. Let's find out on which rootstock you can plant with the apple tree.
Which trees can be planted with apple trees?
According to the rules of gardening, it is best to plant trees in the same species - that is, apple trees. In this case, you can "cross" the cultivar with wild (for example, a forest apple tree). Also often planted cuttings of varietal apple trees on adult trees of other varietal apples.
And, at last, cuttings of apple-trees, whose fruits have good taste, courage and other useful qualities, are planted in special stock types that are specially designed for this purpose. The task of such an inoculation is to make it convenient to harvest the crops, since such clonal stocks are characterized by dwarfism or short stature. For the same purpose, you can plant varietal apple trees on wild game, which has long been growing and well established in your garden.
Often gardeners are interested in what else to plant with the apple tree: whether it is possible to plant the apple tree on a pear or mountain ash, etc. Theoretically, it can be done, but guarantees that as a result of such experiments you will get a well-fruit-bearing plant, no. As a rule, interspecific vaccinations are rarely successful, usually such branches are not viable or simply do not bear fruit. But if you really want to try to create such a miracle plant you can still.
At what time can you plant an apple tree?
Usually, apples are planted either in spring or in summer.
In the first case, the vaccine material should be prepared in advance and stored in the refrigerator. Cuttings should be in a phase of sleep, for this they should be wrapped with a damp cloth and placed in polyethylene to reduce the evaporation of moisture. When the first green leaves began to unfold on the stock, get the cuttings of the scion from the refrigerator and vaccinate.
In the second case, the inoculation of apple trees is carried out in the summer, and the stalk should be harvested as close to the time as possible to vaccination (this can be done on the same day). Choose for such works early morning or time after sunset.