| Are dwarf fruit trees grafted with a standard fruit tree branch on a dwarf root stock, or a dwarf branch on a standard root stock? |
| The most common means of dwarfing a fruit tree is to graft a standard variety onto a dwarfing rootstock. This is how most apples and pears are dwarfed. However, recent breeding efforts have produced a few "genetic dwarf" varieties. These are special varieties that are dwarf, typically due to very short internodes (the space between leaves on a shoot. Thanks for the question! |
