What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. This is Kevin the Epic

here. This is my new name and I'm here with David the Good. So two people with

medieval sounding names were talking about grafting today. So yesterday we talked

about growing fruit trees from seed and then you know this is grafting is a way to sort of get

creative with your trees. So David as someone who's never grafted before, can you give us the layman's overview of what it actually is?

Yes, grafting is where you take some Budwood from one tree, so you take like a piece of a branch or you take a bud, you know, a little growth node or whatever, and you graft it onto another tree so one tree is acting as the

roots and then the other tree is acting as a donor and you're joining them

together into one plant so this is the way we produce all of our commercial apple

varieties and pair varieties and plum varieties and peach varieties and

pecan varieties because they'll identify a tree that they think,

oh this tree is a really good good variety and they will take little pieces of branch from it

and cut off what they call scion wood and they will go to a

root stock and they have a root stock planted and they will just take that little

piece and stick it on there and then it grows up into a mature tree but the

entire top of the tree is exactly like the donor. The seedling on the bottom

who knows what it could be. It never gets a chance to express itself.

Got it and so this this would be a way to guarantee that the variety you love so much for either its

flavor or its growth properties clones itself and propagates many, many times over, right,

instead of trying to gamble right right so you get exactly

exactly the same thing so if like your grandmother had an apple tree in her

backyard when you were growing up and you're like I remember that tree it's so great well you could go to

Home Depot and buy an apple tree stick it in your yard then go over to your

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