One bud left

If you found yourself with one viable bud left of an apple variety that would be damn near impossible for you to replace, would you graft it onto a young rootstock or grab a 5 year old apple tree from Home Depot just because it has a more developed root system (granted, those trees are typically pretty bad, but just to get the bud to grow and get some scionwood for next year)?

Go get a larger tree for sure to push wood.

Smaller rootstocks you always have the chance they could die. That’s the whole bench grafting game for me. I know I’m getting whatever percentage of something but I know I’m going to lose trees two months after the graft has taken and grown. You gotta account for that.

Dax

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Thanks!

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