Grafting fruit trees isn't that hard a job. I learned by grafting roses
when I was a kid and then got a book from the library and started
grafting some really good satsumas onto some trifoliata stock just to
play around. If you've got one of the old, really nice tasting, Golden
Delicious, you've got a fine apple. My FIL had two golden and two reds
on his place in Southern Maryland and they were the best apples I had
ever eaten. The delicious apples you buy in stores today taste like
cardboard. Treasure your trees.
George
Linda Baranowski-Smith wrote:
Am I that someone, maybe? We have Golden Delicious trees that my
grandfather grafted 50 years ago. They have sentimental value but
more importantly the apples taste good. My husband and I were going
to take a course in grafting through the farmers' group at the high
school but the instructor died and the course was dropped. Local
"promises" didn't happen. Last spring a course was being offered
online through Cornell but it was full. We didn't want to wait any
longer and didn't trust our own skills.
So, we took 12 scions in the spring and sent them to people in North
Carolina whose website is
cost was $15. per successful graft, plus shipping (bareroot, cost was
$6.). We wanted six trees. They returned five successful grafts on
semi-dwarf rootstock this fall. Good enough. They're planted. I'm
looking forward to the fruit in a few years.
Linda in NW Ohio.
