Cuttings from juvenile tissue are more successful than mature tissue, which means the propagator will not get mature material. Some plants do not root at all, or do not do so easily. Graftage offers many advantages over cuttage, although it is more labor intensive. The biological processes behind grafting are based on normal wound healing, so most plants can be grafted. As soon as vascular connection is made the scion will be supplied with water and nutrients by the rootstock , so protection of the scion is not as complicated as a cutting.
Mature tissue grafts almost as readily as juvenile tissue.
Cuttings or buds can be selected from a single desirable plant and grafted onto multiple seedling rootstocks of miscellaneous parentage, producing numerous new generations of predictable, productive plants in a short amount of time. In addition, new plants can be invented by grafting as long as stock and scion are compatible . A desirable fruit bearing cultivar may be grafted onto a drought and disease resistant rootstock. Dwarf fruit trees are the result of grafting onto dwarfing rootstocks . This means that any variety of apple or stone fruit may be grown as a dwarf if the appropriate rootstock is obtained.