While munching on an apple, we've all wondered if the seeds could be used to grow our own orchard, but growing fruit trees is more complicated than you think.

In this video, Anne of All Trades explores various methods of growing fruit trees, discussing their advantages and ...

Even old wild apple trees are suitable for grafting onto or from if the fruit is tasty! If your apple tree does not reliably set fruit each year, you can graft some crabapple branches onto it.

They then graft a new tree onto the rootstock. Quince is a common rootstock for pears, but under some conditions, it can overtake the graft and become the dominant species.

Grafting and budding are horticultural techniques used to join parts from two or more plants so that they appear to grow as a single plant.

The graft succeeded, and today we can marvel at a half-and-half fruit tree. City Arborist Ron Stoner doesn’t know who did the graft or when it was done.

Pears take three to five years for the tree to start fruiting. However, grafted varieties can start bearing two years after planting.

Pears belong to the genus pyrus. The cultivars are not true to type when grown from seed, hence the need for vegetative propagation, most common methods being budding and grafting.