Stategies to get the variey of fruit you want Balancing multi-grafted fruit trees

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Six years later, it is a healthy success. well, for the most part. It's just not what I expected. Each summer I get buckets of lovely Shiro plums, handfuls of Santa Rosa and Satsuma plums, but to date. not one Italian prune. I'd now describe the treeas Shiro... with some Santa Rosas, a few Satsu-mas and no Italian Prunes!Yes, that's the tree depicted above as well as on the facing page. Clearly, things went awry with this tree, and since so many readers are avid collectors and grafters of fruit trees, this should hardly come as a surprise. Whether you purchase a multi-grafted tree or make your own by adding varieties to your trees through grafting, things tend to get out of balance, and you won't end up with the variety and quantity of fruit that you expect. But it doesn't have to be that way, as long as you approach your planning and tree care to create the kind of balance you desire.