yes!

JoeReal here does quite a bit of grafting. Theres bunches of info in this forum and on the web.

As I understand it, you can do several varieties around a rootstock, OR you can grow the rootstock to have limbs then graft more varieties on those limbs

I think one thread here talks about what types of trees are most vigorous, but some graft can be "puny" in comparison to a stronger growing tree. they wont all grow the same rate just because theyre on the same stock.

I did in the second week o last February,7 grafts in the following manner:

2 apricot scions on plum stock. I grafted these two scions on 2 branches of an adult plum. They succeded and the scions 5 inch long burst and produced branches 3 feet long. I used splice grafting technique. Next year I expect to have pluots.
2 peach scions on another plum tree on 2 branches. I used also splice technique. Both succed and are doing well.
one nectarine scion on a peach tree. Splice graft. Doing very well.
one peach scion on another peach variety tree. Used cleft graft. Doing very well.
One plum scion on a peach tree.Splice graft. Doing very well.
I grafted each of these scions on a single branch. I cut the branch 6 to 7 inches from a node. I chose splice because I had scions with the same diameter as the rootstock branch.However I could have used an easier thechnique called whip and tongue. I did the cleft grafting because the scion was of smaller diameter. The critical part is alignment of the cambia of the scion and rootstock,choice of the right time (end of winter/start of spring) and seal properly from air and rain water. I used a sharp grafting knife that I bough on ebay for 20 dollars and I washed my hands and sterilized the knife with alcohol.
I used green tape used by nurseries to secure young trees and a compound called a "grafting in-arching or pruning compoud" made by Morrisons orchard supply. I was recommended to use this by an old man who worked in a OSH store. He told me that he had used them several times and always with success.Note:the tape has enough elasticity to extend as the scion/stock union fuses and grows so girdling does not occur.

jmmedeiros thanks for the info do you have any pics you can share

You will get a lopsided tree.

I have an apparently well balanced tree that is composed of about 30 citrus variety now.

Shown in the link below when it was still composed of 27 kinds of citruses, scroll to pic#39. The tree has now grown bigger and have successfully added 3 more cultivars, and now even more well balanced than ever.

Here is a link that might be useful: Multi-grafted tree

Joe thatÂs cool how many actually fruit and are they true to the type? do you have any close up pics?

Well try that later. I just borrow digital camera so am not really taking pics that often. About 8 kinds fruited last season, now about 12 kinds of them have bloomed and produced fruitlets, perhaps next year, I will have 22 of them blooming. They bloom at different times, and I harvest at different times. For now I have fruitlets of limes, lisbon, meyer, variegated pink lemon, regular valencia, summer valencia, washington navel, chironja, lima acidless, and about 3 mandarins that I could not read off the faded labels. Also have ready to pluck lemons and limes hanging in the back of the tree towards our neighbor's side, can't touch those, they ethically belong to my neighbor even if it is from my tree (unwritten rule). When I have time, will surely post pics. Next week, the tree will undergo another surgery. I plan to add my other budwoods that I have been postponing to add due to heat wave we are having, so the tree may look a little bit odd at that time, but for sure next spring it will look balanced again. I'll get and post pics again, but don't know when, will let you know.

My lopsided untrimmed variety tree. I also have a pear tree with 10 varieities. It doesn't look lopsided.

Here is a link that might be useful: My kumquat/fairchild/sunquat tree

I have a lemon/grapefruit tree that is lopsided and getting more so. For 6 years, it stayed the same size. This March, I started to use EB Stone Organics fertilizer and the grapefrit side really took off, grew 2 feet just since spring. The Lemon side didn't get taller but has zillions of fruit. So my grafted tree is turning into a primarily grapefruit tree with a branch of lemons.

Should I do something about this?

mehetabelle: Which EB Stone fertilizer are you using? I checked their website, but couldn't find any information on the contents of their products. What is the N-P-K, and which micronutrients does it contain? Thanks much :)

~Derek

Joe: Please tell me what kind of wax you apply on the scions. It has yellow color. thanks. K.

Status of my grafted Pears as of 5 20 06
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Update of my grafting
All pics below were taken on 5 30 06 and done with JoeÂs bark graft method on 5 10 06.
LouÂs pear grafted to Asian pear
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Shineshieki pear grafted to Asian pear. Notice the flowers forming at such a short time it was grafted.. I am amazed just how fast they grow.
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LouÂs green apple grafted to Fuji apple

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