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Grafting trees - shower tree + mango + avocado

Daniela Andrade

9 years ago

Hi,

The house Im about to buy has a shower tree right in the middle of the yard. We were hoping to cut it short and use the stomp to add mango and avocado grafts. I have no experience with grafting trees so I wonder if that's possible... or can I only graft like plants together, like lime and orange etc? Are any fruit trees compatible with a shower tree?

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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
9 years ago
convert to the latin names of all.. and do your research with those names....

generally speaking.. if the first latin names match ... then there is a chance they can be grafted ... if not.. the odds are probably long ..

for example if i was considering grating a beech to an oak ... i would note that fagus is not quercus... so they are not in the same family ... but if i wanted to try a red oak on a white oak.. or vise versa.. then there MIGHT be odds since both are quercus .....

ken
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lucky_p
9 years ago
But... the odds would be against you, ken. White oaks are pretty compatible across their section, but the red/black group...not really reliably compatible, even on their own seedlings, and not at all on members of the white oak group.

But... with some genera - or even families - you can get by...I've successfully grafted apple onto pear(not long lived, but successful for a few years), pear onto hawthorn (15 years and counting), plum and peach onto P.tomentosa(Nanking cherry), and quince has historically been used as a dwarfing understock for pear and medlar.

Googling up 'shower tree'...it's Cassia fistula...not graft compatible with mango or avocado, so far as I'm aware...
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Embothrium
9 years ago
None of the three kinds you asked about will be able to grow together as grafts.

For other readers here shower tree in suitable climate regions is Cassia.
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