Choosing Fruit Trees for Your Australian Climate

Choosing Between Grafted and Seedling Trees Grafted trees (the scion grafted onto a rootstock) offer significant advantages: dwarfing rootstocks reduce mature tree size, earlier fruit production (2-3 years versus 5-7 for seedlings), and disease resistance bred into the rootstock. For Australian conditions, grafted trees are almost always superior. They're slightly more expensive initially but deliver faster returns and greater reliability. Seedling trees (grown from seed) are cheaper but unrel…