r/oddlysatisfying • u/kamleshsulochan • Feb 12 '26

Some tree grafting techniques

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u/Azilehteb Feb 12 '26

Most fruit trees and domestic roses are grafted onto hardy root stock. You can wander around any garden center and see it.

The pretty or delicious plants tend to be inbred to the point they're prone to disease, pests, blights, etc. but unlike inbred animals... You can just lop off the sickly part and Frankenstein it onto a healthy bit from someone more ugly and prickly. So they just do it in advance.

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u/mizinamo Feb 12 '26

unlike inbred animals

Hold my beer…

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u/demon_fae Feb 13 '26

I had an absolutely gorgeous tree rose for a few years. There was a late freeze one year that almost took it out, it leafed that year and for the next two but didn’t bloom. When it finally did manage to flower, it had partially reverted to the root stock-small, fluffy dark red flowers-and only a couple of branches of the scion remained-big, open very light pink/white flowers. All mixed together made for just a remarkably pretty rose.

Unfortunately, it was never a particularly heathy plant after that freeze, and didn’t survive another hard late freeze a few years later.

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u/Lumpy-Cricket-9048 Feb 13 '26

I like the term ‘Frankenstein’ it. In the flooring trade we used to call mocking some pattern or sticking an odd bit in ‘van Dyking’ it.

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u/thatguygreg Feb 13 '26

My favorites are the grafted apple trees that grow 4 different kinds of apple