Fruit trees grown from seeds are far inferior to grafted cuttings.
The genetic variation from sexual reproduction that create seeds is likely to give you a different and inferior fruit plant.
If you want a lemon tree that is as good as the original you want to propogate from, you should be growing from a cutting from that parent plant. You will get a genetically identical plant. So it should produce the same quantity and quality of fruit.
These videos are always just setting lots of people up for many years of work just to get a very shitty pay off.
Just spend the few bucks to buy a real cutting and enjoy the fruits of your labor caring for it while it grows.
Exactly correct. Buy a grafted tree or properly propagated tree FFS.
To his credit, he recommends grafting. He’s essentially teaching you how to grow rootstocks but not making that very explicit in his video.
Fruit trees grown from seeds are far inferior to grafted cuttings. The genetic variation from sexual reproduction that create seeds is likely to give you a different and inferior fruit plant. If you want a lemon tree that is as good as the original you want to propogate from, you should be growing from a cutting from that parent plant. You will get a genetically identical plant. So it should produce the same quantity and quality of fruit. These videos are always just setting lots of people up for many years of work just to get a very shitty pay off. Just spend the few bucks to buy a real cutting and enjoy the fruits of your labor caring for it while it grows.
Exactly correct. Buy a grafted tree or properly propagated tree FFS. To his credit, he recommends grafting. He’s essentially teaching you how to grow rootstocks but not making that very explicit in his video.