Ever wondered if you can pluck different varieties of mangoes off a single tree in your backyard? Or whether your tree can bear fruit earlier than the years-of-wait? Grafting may well be the answer.

Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...

I had a caller ask about his mango tree. He said that one side of his tree was fruited and the other side was barren. I thought about this for a long time and decided that he had a Vainer tree and ...

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Many tropical fruit trees, including mango, avocado and orange, perform better when farmers merge good fruiting characteristics with resistance to disease. To accomplish this, a single stem is placed ...

An old tree can be perpetuated by grafting one of its stems onto a young rootstock. Learn how to graft trees that grow multiple fruits and the benefits of why graft trees are worth it. Grafting is the ...

This school dropout is scripting a success story in the field of horticulture. He has grafted 24 varieties of mangoes on a single tree in his orchard spread over seven acres. Everyone laughed at ...

The mango has been a major cash crop in Tana River County for decades. At least 20,000 households depend on the fruit for their livelihoods, including paying school fees for their children. But mango ...

Mark Suiso of Makaha Mangoes recommends regular maintenance, every other year, once a mango tree has been pruned to a manageable size. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story.

Bosco Aredha’s two-acre citrus fruit farm in Makongeni Estate, Homa Bay is widely known by farmers in the lakeside county and even beyond. The 40-year-old specialises in grafting, an agricultural ...