Heirloom Variety Preservation & Custom Grafting onto New Rootstocks
Do you have an aging apple, pear, or plum tree planted by your ancestors that yields incomparable fruit, but the tree itself is irrecoverably declining and facing imminent loss? You do not have to lose these cherished fruits forever. Expert scion wood collection and custom bench-grafting onto a fresh, vital rootstock represent the most dependable way to carry the genetic identity and exceptional flavor profile of an old tree forward into the next generation. A young sapling cultivated to fit your garden ensures that family heritage and timeless taste will endure for decades to come.
Key benefits of preserving heirloom varieties on a new rootstock:
When propagation onto a new rootstock is not viable: Preserving an old variety ceases to make sense if the mother tree is demonstrably infected with systemic viral diseases (such as plum pox virus / sharka on stone fruits or apple mosaic virus on pome fruits) – viruses persist within the dormant scion buds, meaning the newly propagated sapling would suffer from leaf distortions and poor fruit quality from day one.
