Spring is in the air and the flowers are a bloomin’. If your the gardening type, you know it’s time to bust out the shovel and get to work. If you have a sweet tooth and enjoy growing fruit, you’re gonna love this… An Australian company has fabricated a tree that can bear up to eight different fruits, yep and they call it The Fruit Salad Tree!
How the heck do you grow eight different fruits on a single tree? With an asexual plant propagation technique known as grafting. Typically grafting is used for the commercial production of trees and shrubs, however The Fruit Salad Tree Company utilized this technique to create the ultimate buffet of fruit super tree!
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I see the point of grafting a pollinating partner onto a fruit tree for planting in very small gardens. But the rationale for eight fruit on one tree rather passes me by.
That is so damn cool.
Many fruit trees over-produce one type of fruit, becoming a burden for the average gardener. Limiting a tree’s output usually produces bigger, more flavorful fruit. This method greatly decreases the area used by trees, eliminates root competition, reduces use of resources such as water & soil amendments, and produces a manageable amount of a great variety of fruits.