I'm thinking through how to propegate grafted select varieties of
trees. Grafting is cool, but it doesn't bring new trees into the world, just put one trees' genetics on top of another trees
roots. So how can I take a select variety of tree and actually multiply it.
I'm thinking about creating a stool bed with a grafted tree. Specifically paw paw. What if I took a grafted paw paw tree, laid it down on top of the soil, mounded soil around it's roots (so the tree is planted horizontally). Then as it sends shoots up (from the graft) in the spring mound sawdust around those shoots. I'm imagining this would great a productive stool bed where I can dig up the shoots in the fall and they will each have their own
root. So I would have created a handful of new paw paw trees that are select varieties but on their own root systems.
Any thoughts? Anyone try something like this?
I've attached a screenshot from Akiva Silver's book to highlight what I'm thinking. He suggested doing something like this as a way of propagating root stock. But Im wondering if it can be done to propegate the graft.
The only thing I feel like is worth paying attention to is making sure the rootstock doesn't send up shoots. I wouldn't want those shoots to mix in with the select variety shoots.