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Post by gakaren on Jul 23, 2015 19:56:46 GMT -5
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Post by desertwoman on Jul 23, 2015 21:39:14 GMT -5
I don't know how to feel about this.
On the one hand it is amazing to think about 40 fruits growing on one tree and to see that painting of what that might look like.
On the other hand there just seems to be something wrong about making a tree do that.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2015 23:28:08 GMT -5
I have a grafted plum tree that will grow purple and yellow plums but I would gladly put one of those in its place. I think that's awesome as long as its all organically grown and non gmo.
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Post by restless on Jul 24, 2015 1:24:06 GMT -5
Reading the article made think of the project from an artistic perspective as well as a gardening perspective. I think it is admirable that the grower has had a life long fascination with grafting fruit trees. That he had this idea in his head since childhood. That he bought an orchard to pursue his interest. I don't think too many people have the drive, opportunity, courage, or commitment to try and make a somewhat fantastical childhood idea happen. I think that is pretty cool. I "get" his desire to see what it would look like to have so many fruit on a single tree. I also can commiserate with the the desire he has to see if he can do it. To make it happen. That's a hacker mentality I also share. (Hacker in the original definition of the word, not the omg bad guy stealing my credit card number sense of the word.) The part of me that's a flower child does think it is a little wrong to mess with a tree like that. But the realist in me prunes my vining plants viciously to keep them manageable, culls/thins my seedlings, squishes cucumber beetles, pinches flowers off of basil so I can eat leaves for a couple of weeks longer, yanks weeds out of the ground constantly, scrapes eggs from the back of chard leaves. It can be a brutal hobby, this gardening lark.
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Post by James on Jul 24, 2015 12:00:19 GMT -5
Interesting experiment. I would not plant one in my orchard.
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Jul 24, 2015 12:43:08 GMT -5
I think that's amazing...makes giving fruit baskets obsolete!
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Post by mrsk on Jul 24, 2015 16:14:37 GMT -5
I bet some of the fruits work, and a lot of the other branches die off. I would think that the different ripening schedule for each fruit would be at the mercy of the root systerm?
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