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Check out YouTube vids how to do it. Take your time.
Can always ask an expert how to do it
I have talked with a few so-called experts but the focus is always on why my interest on such old trees, when I have much more commercially viable varieties readily available, and/or the work and time invested is not economically worthy of the effort.
It's a die hard mentality of turning a profit when my concern is conservation.
Fair enough. Don't see why it would make a difference. If they just use the same techniques. Would be same process. Can ask them to show you the profitable variety and then just use the same for any other tree
They want me to chuck aside my trees to buy from them.
Don't sound like experts then. More salesman.
Once you have a single tree you have unlimited trees. Can take cuttings for life.
That's the experts I have available, unfortunately. Amateur gardeners no longer worry developing the skills others would as it has become simpler to just buy trees from nurseries. The professionals become formatted.
True but hobbyist would