gillium Schieber

I have 3 on 3 different rootstock from my friend in Leinzell DE. 1st apple tasting October, late, 2024. Giant and plainly sour,, not Sauer like Ashmeads or Belle de Boskoop or Goldrush(v. Sour). I'll be grafting this spring a few more if interested

Bren, M7, m111, m27 and Supporter 4 rootstock will send up root suckers, but especially m7-probably what made it the most popular rootstock in N.A. My m7 will send up 5 or 10 each year. Let them grow 1-2 years. Dig away some and tear off with help from a heel. Plenty rooted likely-sufficient for bench grafting right way. Or you can graft while still attached to mama and "tear" off later. Tearing supposedly removes adventitious tissue-that that will keep responding but I've never found my heel-tearing to reduce annual sprouts.
Gil Schieber Skipleyfarm.com

I have 400 varieties that every year collect seed from. The seed is put into tiny zip locks bare and put in a larger zip lock with damp towel. All labeled of ourselves as to the known mama(no known male yet). 2-3 months stratification is recommended. Sowing begins February. 4"pot with get upwards of 30 seeds ¼" deep. In 1-2 weeks they are up, 90%. This year I sowed 60 varieties. The male pollen will be some tree down the row as bees tend to fly along that way. After about 2 months I up-pot to a deep band pot, gallon or 2 gallon size. Chicken Manure applied. If you want to get fruit earlier than the typical 5-7 years than graft from these attaching scion to mini-dwarf rootstock like p2,m27 or p22. This should get fruit the 2nd or 3rd year. Every apple seed is a new variety!
 I sell my grafted apple trees-all kinds. Gil Schieber, Skipley Farm

Yes, to answer in short. My 400 apple varieties exhibit about 25% produce flowers on last years wood. Cherries, plums Peach certainly do. None of these will produce on spring growth shoots of this year-only grapes do that as far as I recall.

Grafting is typical, low cost and successful for the amateur. 1 to 2 weeks you have a new tree, and if yiu want it on its own roots just plant it deeper than thd graft union.
I have 200+ varieties of apples and sell scionwood and rootstock, Skipleyfarm dot com

I have over 100 varieties of apples. I have sold scionwood-but not regularly.
gil
skpley farm

This always interests me. you're priced right on.
I too, am propagating like mad. 3500 apple trees- these cost me 85 cents and 25cents more to graft. now growing, weeding, watering, fertilizing, mortgage adds the expense. and then there's profit if you're to sell them. which I am, but I'm also keeping 3000 to grow. It'd be a pretty good turn-around to sell these all and do it all again-even at 6.00. but time is the deciding factor here. retail $12-me dig and send+freight, $8 you dig and pickup.
Let me know of orders you might want to go in on- bulk is better.

From what i see, the delivered CSA near big towns(Seattle)n run about 500 to 1000 per year. the little at-farm baskets for 300 per 22 weeks is meager. 3- to 40$ per box is affordable fair and if the farmer is doing it right-things all clean and good quality, then there's no complaint.