[HN Gopher] Making old orchards new again
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       Making old orchards new again
        
       Author : RickJWagner
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2024-04-03 11:42 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | rsolva wrote:
       | Old apple varieties are fascinating, I plan on grafting multiple
       | old species from my region onto a couple of older trees in my
       | garden. I also experiment with grafting apples onto rowan trees,
       | with is compatible.
        
       | lbotos wrote:
       | If you read this and got curious here is an independent grower
       | who has been breeding all kind of wild apples on his homestead:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBHqPMK9xM0
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       | 6 min in you can see his bright red fleshed (yes, flesh!) apple
       | he is trying to breed out.
        
       | all2 wrote:
       | My parents have finished grafting this year's round of trees.
       | Some 600 new grafts onto root stock. Most of the space on their
       | property is planted out now, so these will be for selling in the
       | next one to five years.
       | 
       | I have to say, I enjoy eating lunch in the orchard. Nothing is
       | quite like sun ripened apples, pears, or plums.
        
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