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[–] Skua@kbin.social 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Artist Prof. Sam Van Aken took this to the logical extreme with the Trees of 40 Fruit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_40_Fruit

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 15 points 2 years ago

That is so cool! Thank you for sharing.

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Fruit tree grafting is extremely easy. You can graft a twig from several apple varieties into one tree, letting that one tree self-pollinate.

Editing to elaborate a little:

Cut the twig at an angle, leaving as much cross section of exposed bark as possible. Then line it up with a cut branch on the tree so the cut bark joins up - if it can't heal it won't take. Then tape it up. I had a special kind of tape for the class but I don't think it matters so much as long as you can keep them joined.

[–] FruitfullyYours@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Masking tape is the easiest tape to use for this. Buddy tape or grafting parafilm is the high end way.

Look up cleft grafting for the easiest most common graft Apples are super easy - not all fruit trees are though.

[–] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Sam Gamgee would like a word

[–] cheesymoonshadow 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Saw a pic of a house where a newlywed couple had each planted a sapling on either side of the front walkway then fused them together over the years so they formed a tree arch over the walkway leading into their home.

[–] Amazed@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

It’s nice that a couple can do that. Today I would say most newlyweds are still renting their land.

[–] vamputer@infosec.pub 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Adding lime branches onto a lemon tree to grow the Sprite Tree™.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Need carbonation branch

Need high fructose corn syrup branch

[–] Steveanonymous@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a couple of trees in my yard that are like this. The cherry has 4 different varieties, the pear has 4 and the apple has 3

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We had a "fruit salad tree" growing up, it was all stone fruits-white peach, yellow peach, nectarine, plum, apricot, pluot. It was fun.

[–] Steveanonymous@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It's fun to do it the healthy way! (Uh huh huh!)

[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Sounds like the Tree of 40 Fruits someone else mentioned.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_40_Fruit

[–] Seraph@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Worth noting if you buy one of these grafted trees one fruit typically dominates production over the others.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know I feel like half the fun would be seeing if you could do it yourself, then again some people just would like to own one I suppose

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I'd love to try it but idk if I want to put in the years it would take to find out that I won or lost

[–] Iapar@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

Elden Ring, Oh Elden Ring.

[–] Concave1142@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I need to do this. Wonder if I can plant some fruit bearing trees to do this, lol.

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Almost makes you wonder if you can do it with other plants, I bet you could make some cool succulent art like this

[–] Clanket@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

We need a weed tree of 40 strains.

[–] Concave1142@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Couple of months ago I saw a YouTube video of someone doing a Willow tree limb fence by putting them in the ground at 45 degree angles and weaving them together. It looked awesome.

[–] barefoot_j@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You can graft pretty much any cactus to any other cactus.

It's pretty common to graft a slow growing cactus to the roots of a fast growing cactus to make it grow much faster.

[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I want to make a gazebo out of cherry trees.

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I've grafted a yellow orb plum onto my purple plum tree. Also a golden delicious apple onto my crabapple tree.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

God, thats so fucking cooooolll

[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 5 points 2 years ago

In my country we have always done grafting on trees; especially citrus ones; in my backyard we have an organge tree with mandarin and lemon grafted on it; we also use wild peach saplings as a base to splice the domestic variety on it to make it more hardy