Grafting - Grafting fruit trees

Would you like to preserve your favorite apple or pear variety? This process of grafting fruit trees requires a great deal of expertise and skill. Joachim Löckelt, a specialist consultant for fruit growing and horticulture, shows you how it's done. Would you like to preserve your favorite apple or pear variety? This requires more than just a seed, because in order to achieve exactly the same characteristics, the parent variety must be "cloned." This process of grafting fruit trees requires a great deal of expertise and skill. Under the expert guidance of Joachim Löckelt, specialist advisor for fruit growing and horticulture at the Tübingen District Office, we will learn how to successfully graft scions (parent variety) onto a vigorous rootstock (trunk and root system) in this course. This summer grafting (oculation) creates a grafting site for our future fruit trees. All participants can graft two varieties, take them home, and plant them. You can also bring your own scions. **Please bring: ** Grafting knife (if available).