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Originally Posted by Canadianman
Yeah, I get that, but the purpose of two apples on one tree is that apples needs to cross-pollinate in order to flower. If there isn't another apple tree within 300 feet or so, it won't make apples. So if you only have room for one tree (like me), then you need to get one with two kinds of apples (or confirm a neighbour has one).
I never really considered that two different apple branches might look stupid. That's a good point.
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If the branches look similar, it's fine. But the one the guy had, one was a reddish brownish bark color with wider/larger leaves grafted to the other which was a yellowish green bark with smaller leaves. I guess it wasn't as apparent when the tree was a twig, but got way more apparent as time went on. It was just straight up jarring how different the two were and the guy was kinda miffed that the grafted branch of a different which was also yellowish green bark was the one that didn't survive.
I guess in theory if the different branch takes, it would be less weird if you started grafting more branches to the tree so that it doesn't have a singular weird branch? But that's quite a bit of work.