No, as the rootstock is what pushes the tree to maturity. You also need to be picky about what part of the tree you try to induce growth from, and apples are pretty fussy. New growth meristem is the typical, you can’t just get a piece of hardwood or even cambium and expect to multiply it from that. TC in apples is limited to virus indexing for establishment of virus-free mother blocks and rootstocks that don’t do well in the stoolbed. I did apple TC for one year and gave up as it was just too labor intensive; you’d have to do it on a large scale to be profitable.
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