{"id":189512,"date":"2014-09-26T23:27:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T23:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/26\/damegreywulf-astrodidact-this-tree-is-growing\/"},"modified":"2018-09-15T04:27:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T04:27:42","slug":"damegreywulf-astrodidact-this-tree-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/26\/damegreywulf-astrodidact-this-tree-is-growing\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-189512 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/26\/damegreywulf-astrodidact-this-tree-is-growing\/attachment\/189513\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tumblr_n9549dcFRn1rx70ego1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tumblr_n9549dcFRn1rx70ego1_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tumblr_n9549dcFRn1rx70ego1_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/damegreywulf.tumblr.com\/post\/98281065606\/astrodidact-this-tree-is-growing-40-different\" target=\"_blank\">damegreywulf<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/astrodidact.tumblr.com\/post\/92583951546\/this-tree-is-growing-40-different-kinds-of-fruit\" target=\"_blank\">astrodidact<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1 class=\"headline hover-highlight entry-title hovered\"><strong>This Tree Is Growing 40 Different Kinds Of Fruit At Once<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p class=\"first-text\">This single (and quite colorfully blossoming) tree grows 40 different varieties of peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries, and even almonds \u2014 but just how does it do it?<\/p>\n<p>It does it through the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com.au\/news\/20142107-25892.html\" target=\"_blank\">process of chip grafting<\/a>. After sculptor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treeof40fruit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Van Aken<\/a>\u00a0bought a failing orchard in upstate New York full of hundreds of different fruit trees, he began the pain-staking process of grafting several of the different varieties together into one tree. Six years later, the result is this 40-fruit bearing tree,\u00a0which includes some heirloom varieties that are centuries old.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Sam Van Aken<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/this-tree-is-growing-40-different-kinds-of-fruit-at-onc-1608917128\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/io9.com\/this-tree-is-growing-40-different-kinds-of-fruit-at-onc-1608917128<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>woooooah<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>damegreywulf: astrodidact: This Tree Is Growing 40 Different Kinds Of Fruit At Once This single (and quite colorfully blossoming) tree grows 40 different varieties of peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries, and even almonds \u2014 but just how does it do it? It does it through the\u00a0process of chip grafting. After sculptor\u00a0Sam Van Aken\u00a0bought a failing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/26\/damegreywulf-astrodidact-this-tree-is-growing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[173,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189514,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189512\/revisions\/189514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}