Our apple tree wasn’t doing much of anything (it barely even ever flowered), so I finally cut it down and bark grafted 3 different varieties onto it - Liberty, Ashmead, and Cox Orange Pippin. These should all be able to pollinate one another. We also have a Honeycrisp tree nearby that should benefit from this, too.
This is really cool. Have you had luck in the past with such projects?
Thanks! And Yep! I have grafted a Yellow Egg Plum onto my plum tree, and also Golden Delicious onto my crabapple.
Super neat! We have a Japanese Cherry Willow, which is a graft. We inherited it with the house and are slowly trying to bring it back to better health. It got pretty unbalanced, but it’s already looking better each year. Grafting is such an interesting thing!
Glad it’s doing better! Yeah, grafting is nuts. It’s crazy that most fruit trees are grafted.
Are Golden Delicious good straight from the tree? I do not find the supermarket variety to be particularly delicious.
Yes. I also like Golden Delicious, but def better off of a tree (I feel like pretty much anything is).
Have you had an Opal apple? It’s a cross between Golden Delicious and another variety. My current favorite apple.