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Cocktail tree

A recent development in the agricultural arena, the cocktail tree is a single plant which has the ability to bear multiple types of fruit. Likewise, previous success has been garnered in rose trees that have been created with the ability to produce multiple blooms from a single plant. In both cases an individual root stock, generally the strongest, most resistant to all ailments, is cultivated to a ______ point in order to maintain not only the root itself but also to withstand multiple graftings without over taking the life of the original root. Each cocktail tree carries some genetic similarity in the type of produce grafted and then proliferated. For example, citrus and stone fruit do not survive well on the same root stock. The root stock, generally, contains the same genetic similarity to the fruit grafted, thus, citrus root stock for a citrus cocktail tree, and stone fruit root stock for a stone fruit cocktail tree.

The process of grafting requires the removal of exterior plant matter to the depth of circulation(?) then insertion of a twig or ____ and support by tensile force to maintain position until the two become one. (Elaborate and include citations)

Once grafting is complete, proper pruning is vital to the success of the multiple grafted plant matter to accommodate different rates of growth. Without proper pruning a single aggressive growth variety may squeeze the other grafts out by utilizing more than its share of nutritional values thus starving the other types of fruit.