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Understand the science behind the whip-and-tongue grafting technique and watch apple buds bloom from a grafted scion

Watch a citrus farmer graft a scion onto a sour orange tree's rootstock to produce crops of sweet oranges

grafting methods

Some methods of grafting: (1) simple splice graft, showing cut surfaces of stock and scion and the cut surfaces joined and bound, (2) tongued graft, (3) whip graft, (4) cleft graft, (5) side cleft graft.

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Understand the science behind the whip-and-tongue grafting technique and watch apple buds bloom from a grafted scion

Understand the science behind the whip-and-tongue grafting technique and watch apple buds bloom from a grafted scion

Learn about the whip-and-tongue grafting technique and watch apple (Malus domestica)...

Video: Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Watch a citrus farmer graft a scion onto a sour orange tree's rootstock to produce crops of sweet oranges

Watch a citrus farmer graft a scion onto a sour orange tree's rootstock to produce crops of sweet oranges

Grafting of orange trees

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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cherry graft

cherry graft

A worker grafting bing cherry stock to a hardy rootstock during the winter dormant...

Russ Munn—Agstockusa/age fotostock

grafting methods

grafting methods

Some methods of grafting: (1) simple splice graft, showing cut surfaces of stock...

© Merriam-Webster Inc.

Some methods of grafting: (1) simple splice graft, showing cut surfaces of stock and scion and the cut surfaces joined and bound, (2) tongued graft, (3) whip graft, (4) cleft graft, (5) side cleft graft.

Some methods of grafting: (1) simple splice graft, showing cut surfaces of stock...

© Merriam-Webster Inc.

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