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See also "Find Your Multiple-Budded Fruit Tree"
Do you need more variety and longer harvest from a limited space? The multiple-budded fruit tree is the answer! Multiple-budded ("Multi-budded") fruit trees will give you several fine selections of tree-ripened fruit from the space of a single tree. Offering varieties suited to many tastes and regions across the country, Dave Wilson Nursery has the largest selection of multiple-budded fruit trees in the U.S.
Compared to single-variety fruit trees, multiple-budded trees require some special consideration, especially with regard to pruning.
• When selecting a multiple-budded tree, look for one that has an even distribution of limbs around the tree. If the different fruit varieties (the limbs) are not well-spread on your trees, use a spreader to separate them.
• Multiple-budded fruit trees are grown close together in the nursery rows and this can result in some of the budded selections receiving less-than-optimum sunlight during their development.
• Always plant the smallest limb (the "weakest" bud) to the south/southwest to insure that it gets plenty of sun..
• Cut back the strongest growing varieties by 2/3rds.
• Cut back the weakest variety by 1/2 — or not at all.
• During the summer, watch the growth-rate of the smaller limbs to determine if pruning is necessary at that time. If the weakest variety is 1/2 the size of the others, it's best not to cut it back.
• Do Not! let one variety take over - or one or more of the the others may fail. Prune back the more aggressive limbs. Summer-prune when necessary in order to let sunlight get to all the developing varieties. The primary reason for the failure of multi-budded fruit trees is letting one variety take over which can cause the others to fail. This is most often due to lack of summer pruning when needed. remember to keep even sunlight available to all the developing selections.
• After the third season, maintain the multiple-budded tree so that each fruit-type grows in balance with the others.
Some of the multiple-budded combinations shown below are marked “any 4 of the 5 varieties possible”. This means that each tree is budded with five different selections, but at harvest time the smallest of the five resulting limbs is removed. That's how Dave Wilson Nursery gets a greater percentage of strong, 4-n-1 multiple-budded trees.
Multiple-budded fruit tree combinations offered by Dave Wilson Nursery:
Apples
Low Chill Semi-dwarf Multi-Budded Apple on M-111
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Anna |
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Semi-dwarf Multi-Budded Apple on M-111
Fuji |
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Fuji |
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Fuji |
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Apricots + Aprium
Semi-Dwarf Multi-Budded Apricot/Aprium® on Citation
Tomcot |
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Cherries
Semi-dwarf Multi-Budded Cherry on Colt
Black Tartarian |
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Semi-dwarf Multi-Budded Cherry on Mazzard
Rainier Bing Utah Giant Van |
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Rainier Bing Lapins Van |
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Peaches
Cold Hardy Semi-dwarf Multi-Budded Peach on Citation
Gleason Early Elberta |
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California Special Multi-Budded Peach on Lovell
Strawberry Free |
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Peach Leaf Curl Resistant Multi-Budded Peach on Lovell
Frost™ |
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Low Chill Multi-Budded Peach on Nemaguard
May Pride |
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Zaiger Pride Multi-Budded Peach on Nemaguard
Mid-Pride |
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Peach + Nectarine
White Flesh Multi-Budded Peach + Nectarine on Lovell
Heavenly White |
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Showy Flowers Multi-Budded Peach + Nectarine on Nemaguard
Fantasia |
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Pears
Semi-dwarf Multi-Budded Pear on OHxF333
Comice |
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Disease Resistant Semi-dwarf Multi-Budded Pear on OHxF333
Warren |
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Semi-dwarf Multi-Budded Asian Pear on OHxF333
Hosui |
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Plums
Semi-dwarf Multi-Budded Plum on Citation
Nubiana |
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Semi-dwarf Multi-Budded European Plum on Citation
Brooks |
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Low Chill Semi-dwarf Plum on Citation
Mariposa |
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Peach-Nectarine-Plum-Apricot
Fruit Salad on Lovell
Gold Dust Peach |
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Fruit Salad on Nemaguard
July Elberta Peach |
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Pluot® Interspecific
Semi-dwarf Multi-Budded Pluot® on Citation
Flavor King |
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Zee Sweet Nuggets Semi-dwarf Multi-Budded Pluot® on Citation
Splash |
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Specialty 2n1s
2n1 Miniature Nectarine-Peach on Lovell
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Nectar Babe Nectarine |
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2n1 Miniature Nectarine-Peach on Nemaguard
Nectar Babe Nectarine |
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Necta Zee Nectarine |
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2n1 Semi-dwarf Cherry-Plum on Citation
Sprite |
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