Hi everyone.
I'm a long time reader of your forum, but I never registered until now.
After writing an article about grafting multiple fruit cultivars or species onto a single tree, in which I linked a discussion on the permies.com forum, I thought I might be time to create an account and maybe start participating.
The article in question can be found here:
https://read.cash/@PiRK/grafting-multi-fruit-trees-95606c86
TL;DR; growing trees with multiple cultivars of a fruit, or even multiple species of fruits, is a fascinating subjet. I explore why it is not a much more common practice. In short, these trees are harder to prune in the long run, as they have a more chaotic architecture as your basic single cultivar tree with a central leader and all branches growing outwards. It is also more work in a nursery, and the trees take nursery space for a longer time. It is less easy to streamline the whole process.
But I still think that these trees would probably be easy to sell at a good price, and that there must be a niche market that is probably not as developed as it could be.
