below the graft, or straight up from branches. They won’t bear fruit and suck energy out of the tree. Clip them off on sight, down to the soil line. If you grew a sapling from an avocado pit on ...

However, to improve crop yields, many farmers in the area have embraced grafting, which entails fusing two types of trees or crops together. The "scion" is the upper part of the tree while the ...

a customer is cutting suckers from an avocado tree to graft to her seedlings.The grafting material, commonly known as the scion, must come from a high quality plant. A customer is first shown the ...