>>2630592>just wanted to say "cultivar" is a man-made type, "variety" is a naturally occurring type.Just so people are following...
When you get a named cultivar that's a graft, they grow something like a Bradford pear, cut off the trunk and graft in a branch that becomes the new trunk.
So it's easy to maintain because the trunk is the important part and anything that grows off it is the named cultivar and you only have to remove suckers/runners that come up from the roots.
When you do the 5 in 1 trees they graft onto some type of trunk. In a perfect world that trunk would be one of the named cultivars instead of something like a Bradford but that would require additional years. You'd have to grow the rootstock, cut off the trunk and graft a new trunk then let it grow large enough to graft on multiple branches.
There's nothing inherently "wrong" with grafts. There are some cultivars that have weak root systems or only survive in very specific growing zones.
It's also much faster to have a fast growing variety/cultivar that can produce a nice large root system to graft onto instead of waiting for a cutting to root and grow by itself. It's also a higher success rate.
