Beginner Grafting Guide

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Almond, plum, peach, nectarines, and their hybrids are closely related enough that they can be grafted together using the proper rootstock.

Multi species grafting

I know it is typical and customary to graft multiple stone fruit species to one rootstock as there are many which are compatible. This point was driven home by the recent Guinness World Record I have been thinking about apples and all of their distant relatives that have been discussed on the forum and thinking you might be able to do more with them than stone fruits, species wise. Starting off with apples and using interstems, you could do aronia, hawthorn, pear, shapova, from there possibly …