Actually I looked up the real story of Johnny Appleseed and he was more about making hard cider and selling land. 🙃

  • unphazed@lemmy.world
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    Take a small branch of a tree you like, splice it using a technique, take a small young tree of same type but different variety, splice it, attach branch of variety you like, seal. Nurture it, and the branch uses the donor tree to pull up nutrients and water, and the branch then grows into a whole new tree. It’s cloning, but grafting helps it move faster and without as much risk.

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      They were responding to the original version of my comment where I asked what the technique was called.