
As my baby fruit trees mature and start to bear fruit, they are showing up with some strange grafts.
I've got the cherry tree that is half one thing on one side and the other half is something else. It looks like Two-Face. I don't know what that tree is since the birds stripped the cherries off before they were ripe. It's got cherries on both sides, but different leaves and different bark. The tree is supposed to be a Montmorency.
Now, my Cortland apple turns out to have Cortland (I hope) on the top of the tree and the two lowest branches are Yellow transparent.
That was really odd to go and check the apples and discover that the lowest apples were yellow.
I am assuming that it was a yellow transparent tree and it was top grafted with Cortland, and then sold as Cortland. I'm going to cut off the branches with the yellow apples and hope that's the end of it.
At least the top apples, although no where near ripe, are really promising. They look like Cortland, but whatever they are, they are going to be good.
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