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Grafting Fruit Trees: Rootstock Selection for Size Control

Rootstock choice determines mature tree size. For full-size apples, graft onto pencil-to-broomstick seedlings. For dwarfs, buy Malling rootstocks online. Pears on Callery rootstock yield full-size trees; dwarf pears are trickier—master basic grafting first. Excellent resources available from grafting specialty websites.

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