Three For The Price Of One!

[Artisan]

Has anyone got any comments on the �three in one� patio fruit trees that have three varieties of the same fruit grown from the rootstock? I have seen them available in Apple, Pear and Cherry.

Your comments will be welcome as I am thinking of get one for the patio.

[Kirk]

The selected varieties need to be well matched and in general the ones you see are grafted more by the names then the growing characteristics.

What then occurs is that one is a weak grower and one is strong (triploid) in the instance of an apple. the strong one runs away and out grows the others.

Been around many years and never really caught on which makes me suspect that they just do not work that easily.

If you into apples, varieties, types and charateristics then you can likely get a specialist nursery to produce the mix that you want. Was a program where someeone had a main with about 100 varieties grafted on, up and around it. But he had developed it over several years. For some reason the A to Z of gardening with the weather presenter comes to mind. Carol Kirkwood, that was the presenter.

Check Orange Pippin website out, they may have information.

[Artisan]

Thank you. I thought that may be the case. I think I will stick to the good old fashioned single variety trees.

[Brack]

Many of those I see have the most common, blandest varieties on them - I can get a golden delicious or gala anywhere. Granted it'll taste better off a tree, but there are a few thousand other varieties out there.

[Losos]

Thank you. I thought that may be the case. I think I will stick to the good old fashioned single variety trees.

I will second that As mentioned above these have been around for ages, I tried one about 20 years ago, waste of money (and I didn't have much in those days ) vowed never to do it again