Malus domestica 'Pitmaston Pine Apple' syn. Malus domestica 'Pitmaston Pineapple'

Evening all, just posting a few random pics tonight, including a couple from college over the last couple of months - this is my latest graft from 2 weeks ago - the ‘Whip and Tongue’ graft. It’s used more where stronger support is required and you can see it comes together to form a very strong union between the rootstock and scion. I’ve done a drawing to better illustrate what it looks like under all that wax and elastic tie. Commonly done on Apple trees, as demonstrated on my attempt here 🤓🍏

We were allowed access to the orchard to pick our own scion material, and I came across this variety called Pitmaston Pineapple which sounded quite interesting! It’s an old variety, tastes a little like pineapple apparently 🤔😄🍍🍍 - I think the rootstock is MM9 (?? Need to check as forgot to write it down)

I’m going to grow these as cordons I think - fingers crossed they take. Here’s a bit more info on grafting for anyone interested 👍🏼 https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=443 #graft #apple-graft #propagation #graftedapple #whipandtonguegraft #apple #malus #malusdomestica #malusdomesticapitmastonpineapple

Pertaining to this, and my previous comment, I learned to graft also. We opened a leaf node with a T cut, (after stripping all the leaves), then slipped a new wood cutting not the slit, then tied with a bit of rubber band. The rootstick we grew from seed, I don't know what variety. The new wood cuttings came from Clemson university orchards. (South Carolina)