Alex Salazar: on cocktail fruit trees or planting multiple trees together in one hole.

Alex of tropical acres farms shares his thoughts on cocktail fruit trees and planting multiple trees together in the same hole. Could this be a solution for growers with small yards?

[@chaselex]

Idea for next video: a few configurations of cocktail trees that would work together. For example: Pickering, Julie, honey kiss grown together in a cocktail tree will be equal vigor?

[@dmatcardoug2986]

Thanks Alex, makes sense.

[@jeffery8928]

I wouldn't do it if I had acreage, but I am packing trees into my postage stamp lot. We'll see what happens.

[@441rider]

I have 2 self grafted trees and the yuzu Cocktail grapefruit grafted had far more vigor leaving one yuzu leaf. My other tree is a Meyer/Kafir lime/Cocktail grapefruit which took canopy I have to cut back. All citrus does not graft depending on variety

[@ziggybender9125]

Mmm I don't know, I like the concept of Biomimicry and copying nature. In nature a fruit trees seeds may drop to the ground and sprout or be carried somewhere else to sprout my some animal or bird, if that seed happened to by a polyembryonic seed than it will sprout multiple trees from the single seed. The growth vigor wouldn't be the same as 1 sprout is a new hybrid cross and the rest are clones of the mother tree, but they will still grow there together and eventually fuse together in natures own form of grafting (they will fuse together under ground at the roots as well as at the trunk). It doesn't matter that the new hybrid grows slower, eventually it bears fruits and gets its own seeds distributed and a new variety is born if it can make polyembryonic seeds and clone itself while further making new varieties.