How to Grow More Than One Kind of Fruit on a Tree

For those of you who want to delve deeper, check out the "North American Fruit Explorers" (NAFEX) on Facebook for links to tutorials:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/21070015101/

Also a really good source for Northern grown fruit tree scions is:
https://www.treepeony.com/collections/seeds-and-scion-wood

Wow! This almost makes me want to reassess my concept of nature.

When I was a boy here in CT, we found a Micah Rood apple tree in a field belonging to a neighbor. He was happy to know about it, as it was probably the last specimen of that varietal. It had no special flavor, but had a blood red stain in the flesh around the seeds, giving it the association with the legend.

If you want to really learn about grafting there is much more involved than the technique itself. You need to source wood and need to know what varieties are hardest to grow, etc. etc.

Anyone interested in this subject and growing fruit in general should go to growingfruit.org.

It's the best fruit growers forum in existence.

Here is a link to a short very informative video about chip budding fruit trees:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYAo8NzO6Pg

You Tube can often be a valuable "how to" resource if you are very selective about which ones to watch. As with the rest of the internet there is a lot of garbage produced by adolescent morons looking for their 15 minutes of fame.

My parents had a fruit cocktail tree circa 1960 at their first home in New City, New York. And if I know my father, they bought it at the nursery that way. I see a business opportunity for someone.

You sure know how to frustrate your readers. The grafting instructions are impossibly confusing.

i'd love to see pictures or a short video showing how to do this.

That we are not offered more variety at the super market is a shame. Having limited experience propagating apples I can tell you that there are incredibly delicious apples most of us have never heard of. I had two espalier form trees each with eight branches. Each branch was a different variety of apple not normally found in stores. And all were excellent tasting and very crisp.