Fruit Salad Trees (forum)

Jimmy starts with ...
Drovers Lifestyle Centre in joondalup has many fruit salad trees from the fruit salad tree co in NSW for sale.

Both citrus and stonefruit.

Very interesting how they got there as Fruit salad tree Co states that it will not sell to garden centres on it's website.

Time: 8th February 2010 11:44am

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Brad says...
interesting. would you recommend buying trees with so many grafts?

Glowinski's book indicates he had trees with huge numbers of grafts, but I wonder whether the long term tree will be as healthy if bought grafted so many times???


Time: 10th February 2010 8:30pm

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Charles cant spell says...
I have lost one double graft so far. The other one is fine. The issue is that as the plant grows you need to manage each so that it grows evenly. This becomes difficult if the multigraft is made of unsuitable varieties.
I imagine this would require a great knowledge of varieties growth rates and growing zones.
The long and the short of it is the more the harder the tree is to manage.
I think if you where to multigraft an established tree it might be easier and more sensible but these 3-4 type grafts seem a bit "in vouge" rather than practical. I would love to see all these multigrafts in 5 years to see if they still have each graft viable.

Dual grafts seem fine. I think the chance of having compatible varieties is easier.

Time: 11th February 2010 12:04am

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Brad says...
sure Charles. Fruit salad tree Co indicate they talk to clients to match up a workable tree to a wanted tree. Which is probably why they (usually?) don't go through garden centres. There's other places (Flemings, Tass1) that do up to triple grafts. Daleys seem not to offer them.

I'm wondering what the experienced / scientific opinions are rather than the for profit marketing.

I suspect I'll have more fun doing my own grafts onto an established plant rather than buying one, but I'm not there yet.

Time: 11th February 2010 1:16pm

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Brad says...
I'm still interested in Jimmy's opinion.
search again turns up something from Daleys:
Correy says...
I suspect that the person who owned the property before you was a keen horticulturalist. What you have is called a multi-graft. They can be a bit more work to keep under control. Here is the information we usually respond with when asked about them.

"It refers to grafting two or three varieties onto the one tree, (for example one lemon, one mandarin, one orange onto the one rootstock). While this is desirable for people with limited space in a small back yard, from a horticultural perspective in our experience, it takes quite a bit of skill to maintain a multigrafted tree as one variety will usually dominate and outgrow the others without careful management. Generally I find that gardeners with the skill to maintain a healthy multigraft, usually also carry the skill to graft the trees themselves. This factor has led us to avoid introducing the line into our nursery. A successful alternative to this if you are short of space is to plant 2 or more varieties at much closer spacing. The benefits of this include the ability to identify which tree is which, they will be much easier to maintain and is generally cheaper than purchasing a multigraft."

Time: 11th February 2010 1:21pm

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Jimmy says...
I'm not so sure about a mixed species multigraft eg some at drovers were apricots and peaches/nectos/ and plums.

The apricots grow long and lanky, fruit on spurs and one year old growth, the peaches/nectos are vigourous and only fruit on one year old growth and the plums are very wippy and pendulous they also bear from spurs.

Thus keeping the vigour even and the pruning to do this may not suit the particular fruit types habits.

I would not have a problem with closer related species eg double graft peach.necto as they can be pruned the same and hopefully have the same amount of vigour.

Time: 12th February 2010 10:44am

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TJ says...
I bought 2 fruit salad tree's from drovers outdoor in wanneroo. they look great and have started fruiting. they are in my front garden and so many people comment on them. the grafts seem good to me

Time: 1st July 2010 4:05am

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Michael says...
I thought maybe 3 -5 grafts on the same tree was alot until I came across the following site.

The tree have up to 100 grafts with 45 different fruits on it at the moment

http://citrus.forumup.org/about3788-citrus.html

Time: 1st July 2010 12:56pm

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john says...
Hi Guys,

any more then 2-3 grafts have to be done when the plant is in the ground stable and growing well. You can then add to each branch over the years, I don`t recomend sweet and sour on the same tree, lemons can sour mandarins and create seeds in seedless fruit..
Tass1trees has the most multi grafts i`ve seen in perth..

Time: 2nd July 2010 12:22am

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