Re-grafting Silver Prunes

Categories: Fruit Growing

I have five acres of Silver prunes which produce very little fruit. The

trees are strong and healthy. French prune trees adjoining bear

regularly and heavily. Can I graft French prunes on the Silver trees?

Will Silver prune trees take other grafts, such as apricots or apples?



The Silver prune is often unsatisfactory for reason of shy bearing. It

is perfectly feasible to graft over the tree to the French prune and

this has been done for years by different growers. Apricots will usually

take on the plum stock, but are apt to over-grow it or else be dwarfed

themselves, but the apricot is often worked upon a plum stock. Apples

have no grafting affinity whatever for the plum.