Has any one Grafted trees in North Cyprus

LondonCypriot


Joined: 15/12/2008
Posts: 426

Message Posted:
30/10/2011 01:34

Very clever indeed putting an fruit tree onto an another.I did not know this was possible



Graft your own

designer fruit trees

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/clay121.html

credits to Jackie Clay

Jovial_John


Joined: 31/01/2009
Posts: 1024

Message Posted:
30/10/2011 06:59

Nearly all fruit trees are grafted - certainly everything I grew in the UK was (apples, plums, pears, cherries). Sometimes the original root stock throws its own shoots and you cand see what species had been used. I had a friend who had this happen and he mistakenly removed the graft rather than the shoot and was left with a crab apple tree instead of a pear.

Again in the UK you can choose the size of the eventual tree depending onto what root stock it was grafted - I have asked here but the garden centres do not seem to know what they are selling.

I have seen grafting done here but in a very different way. They cut down a suitable tree about 1 metre from the ground and then drill a hole in the centre of the remaining trunk. The graft (shaved all round its base) is then inserted into the hole and the join is covered with a substantial amount of what looks like white clay. I have only observed a couple of times - I have not been able to get the details because of the language barrier

Cocklebay


Joined: 26/02/2011
Posts: 353

Message Posted:
30/10/2011 07:25

The small Garden Centre shop, near Girne State Hospital, will advise you, and for a fee do the work for you!!!