Propagation by seed is typically only used to produce seedling rootstocks for grafting cultivar clones. Collect well-filled nuts during harvest season to produce a seedling. Remove husks and dry nuts ...

The rootstocks that were initially too small, or had failed fall buds, are whip and tongue grafted (see below) in the spring, and the scion is encouraged to grow immediately following grafting. Both ...

It's busy season at Belmont Nursery as many are revamping their vegetable garden or testing their green thumb with annuals or perennials.

Onalaska High School natural resources students had an opportunity Wednesday to learn a practice utilized by fruit growers for thousands of years: tree grafting. "We're basically making clones," said ...

Grafting method used was the whip-and-tongue graft. With daytime temperatures topping out at 68F, and a light breeze, we couldn’t have timed the work better. Rootstock used for apple grafting was ...

World Tomato Day, or Fresh Tomato Day, is celebrated to recognize the importance of tomatoes in our daily lives and their ...

If you're growing fruit trees, then harvesting the (literal) fruits of your labor is the most exciting part. To speed that ...

Puliyangudi farmers thrive on unique, high-yielding PKM 1 lemons, seeking GI tag and sustainable cultivation methods.

A pest is traditionally defined as an organism harmful to humans or human interests. The term also applies to humans ...

Humans aren't the only ones looking forward to fresh fruit in the spring. Squirrels and opossums often grab the best bite ...

This led to a hypothesis that acute cold damages a tree, setting it up for failure. To explain this decline, there had to be variance in rootstock and scions’ cold hardiness, Londo said, which, ...