rootstock and grafting

[bookwormom]

at my MIL's house is an old appletree that was a big old tree already when my husband was a youngster. It is wonderful for fried apples and pies and anything. I would hate to see it die and it's genes disappear. I would like to graft cuttings onto rootstock and see if we could propagate a few trees. My question, where can I get suitable rootstock?

[AlchemyAcres]

I've bought them from Cummins (about an hours drive from here)

http://www.cumminsnursery.com/rootstocks.htm

Raintree also sells them.

http://www.raintreenursery.com/catalog/producttype.cfm?producttype=ROOT

~Martin

[bookwormom]

thanks Martin

[kawalekm]

If you want to get into some hard-core grafting, then you can sprout some of the appleseed right from that tree. The seeds will produce apple trees that won't be true to form, but it will give you the absolute greatest grafting success, because the genetics are so close.

So, save some of that apple's seeds, immediately plant the moist seed in dirt, and raise some seedlings. You can graft branches off the tree in about a year or so, early in the spring a month before budbreak.
Good luck.