Understanding Fruit Tree Types and Their Root Stock

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Knowing which fruit trees do well in your growing region is a great way to start growing fruit. Understanding the root stock of a grafted tree is even better. The grafting process is used to encourage better adaptability in sets of fruit trees, and gaining knowledge about the stock and your climate is paramount. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3TcqPCU Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3Tbur85 Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/42QZU2S EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/48unKCA Learn More: 21 Fast Producing Fruit Trees, Shrubs & Vines Connect With Tom Spellman: Tom Spellman has 25+ years of experience in the nursery industry, specializing in fruit trees. He's known for the popularization of Backyard Orchard Culture, a method of planting fruit trees at home that maximizes production for the home grower, successive ripening, and unique pruning and plant care strategies that give a home gardener a ton of delicious, sweet fruit. Instagram YouTube Web Site Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including The Beet Podcast, Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden and Botanical Interest ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today we're talking about a fruit that frankly I really didn't think I had a shot at growing here in Southern California until I discovered our guests materials. We have Tom Spellellyn back on the show,
0:23.0	backyard orchard culture, Dave Wilson nursery.
0:25.2	We've talked a lot about what it is, some basic rules of thumb.
0:29.4	I thought maybe we could dive into some specific types of fruit trees starting with this whole category of
0:34.0	stone fruits and maybe just defining what makes a stone fruit to stone fruit.
0:40.0	Okay, let's do that. So, Stone Fruit are generally in the parent classification that we call
0:47.5	Prunice. So Prunice are, we've got six main categories. We've got peach. We've got nectarine, which is just a peach that's been
0:57.2	hybridized not to have fuzz. We have apricots. have plums we have cherries
1:05.7	and then an almond
1:07.4	uh... you know the all interesting is also in the same
1:10.4	general family as all those other prunes
1:12.4	oh okay so the one thing they all have in common general family as all those other prunes. Oh, okay.
1:13.4	So the one thing they all have in common is they have a single seed that we call the stone.
1:19.2	So the name stone fruit comes from the fact that they just have that one centrally located single seed.
1:26.0	Got it. And those all fit into a category that is very diverse. We have varieties that ripen up from the end of April all the way up until October.
1:38.1	We have some inter specifics that have been hybridized off of those pluots for example are
1:45.4	inter specific hybrids between plumb and apricot
1:48.7	Apriums are the reverse cross their interspecific hybrids between with an apricot as the maternal parent
1:55.2	and the plum as the contributing pollinator. Oh interesting, yeah.
1:59.2	We have necta plums that are nectarine plumb hybrids we have
2:03.2	peach plums you know we have all kinds of inter specifics that have developed off of that
2:08.2	category and people are people sometimes think, those are genetically altered, but they're not.
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