The Nursery Grafting Tape Market is poised for steady growth, fueled by the rising demand in commercial nurseries and fruit tree propagation. Polyethylene-based tapes lead the market due to their ...

Luther Burbank, the famed experimental horticulturalist, called it making old trees young again. But even for novices, fruit tree grafting is alluringly simple: a dormant branch or twig - a scion - is ...

Late winter is the perfect time to start getting your fruiting trees and shrubs ready for spring. Now is a good time for pruning and planting. And it is a great time to graft! Grafting is a method of ...

From your donor tree, take a stem cutting—also called a scion. This is the portion that will grow into the main tree, with the desirable DNA traits you're looking to reproduce (as opposed to the ...

While Luther Burbank experimented with plants at his home and garden in Santa Rosa, he did the bulk of this work at Gold Ridge, his 11-acre property in Sebastopol. There he grew the famous tree that ...

Has it ever occurred to you that you could design your own fruit tree? Maybe not, but you could if you knew how to graft. Like some skills not widely practiced, grafting has acquired a mystique. The ...

While the term “grafting” is widely used among gardeners, a true understanding of grafting and why it is done is not so common. In a nutshell, grafting is a horticultural technique that joins parts ...

The mango has been a major cash crop in Tana River County for decades. At least 20,000 households depend on the fruit for their livelihoods, including paying school fees for their children. But mango ...

Mango is one of the most popular and best-loved fruits worldwide. In Pakistan, the cultivation of this fruit is as old as the civilization of this tract. It is a rich source of vitamins A, C and D.