Interesting Topic, Grafting and Budding

I met a guy that comes to where I work, all the time, and went to his house to do some stonework and learn something very interesting. Grafting and budding are basically the manipulation of one tree to make it a better tree. No, to make it more like a tree that you want. To keep it easy and short, you can cut a branch off of one species of tree and fuse it to another tree of the same species. For example, apples to apples, literally. As far as I know the variety does not matter, because the gentleman that I was working for has an apple tree with 102 different varieties, or tastes, as he called it, on one tree. Pretty amazing. He also showed me a lemon that was the size of a basketball that came from one of his fabricated trees in Florida. It blew my mind, and has me interested in a new hobby.

I will be back to this post to elaborate in the near future, time is short for now. Bless those effected by Ike and its aftermath.