With grafting, you can get multiple varieties of fruit on one tree, like Luther Burbank did when he grew a cherry tree with 500 varieties of cherries grafted onto it.

Apple trees grown from seed aren't identical to the parent trees and have smaller, inferior fruit. Grafting is a more successful approach.

A: You will want to take (scion) wood from your tree to graft onto rootstock (another citrus) at your new home. See this grafting information online.

How to Propagate by Grafting Grafting is the most common method of fruit tree propagation, and results in a tree with the desirable fruit genetics and hardy rootstock.

From citrus to peaches, almost all fruit trees are grafted, and so are pecans. Some ornamental trees and plants, including Japanese magnolias, Japanese maples and camellias, also are grafted.

Trees of the same genus are generally compatible when it comes to grafting. Thus, you can have a lemon, grapefruit, orange, and mandarin growing on the same tree since all belong to the Citrus genus.

Q. I want to learn how to graft. I've tried libraries and bookstores.

On her Anna apple tree, Kern grafted Ein Shemer, Dorsett Golden, and Red Calypso. Finally, she has top-grafted four different varieties onto her persimmon trees, including Coffeecake.

When shopping for fruit trees, you will often encounter “Fruit Salad” multi-graft specimens that share genus affinity. Trees of the same genus are generally compatible when it comes to grafting.