"David Snedeker" wrote in message
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Well I think you are mistaken. Im no expert but I have done some
grafting of
apple varieties on a variety of root and stem stocks. Its not easy
and Im
fairly adept with tools.

While there are some grafting processes that build trees thru
grafting parts
from different fruits (example, pears grafted onto quince roots,
peaches
onto Nanking cherry and St. Julien plum rootstocks, apricots onto
western
sand cherries) the combo you describe (plum and cherry onto an apple
"trunk"
doesn't make sense for a number of reasons, separate and apart from
any gene
splicing your alcoholic relatives may have been pioneering. For
example, the
physical structure of the cambium in plum and cherry, which is what
you are
trying to join in grafting, are just very different from the cambium
of the
malus. I just can't see how you would make a graft union.

It is common to produce novelty trees with multiple apple varieties,
and
scions from flowering crabs are sometimes grafted directly to
triploid
apples to solve pollination problems. I can envision a tree with
something
that looks like apples on one branch, another branch covered with
Dolgo
crabapples looking very much like cherries, and another branch
covered with
a plum-looking apple variety (perhaps an Anokova cherished by
euroimmigrants) and a mischievous Uncle telling a tall tale to a
child.

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As to your weird comment about oil paint substrates, if you have a
substantive problem with something I once said on that subject why
don't you
just say it?

Dave