I have sold scion wood for some years. It helps fund me and gets a lot of fun, and in some cases rare, genetics out to people. But there are increasingly more options for finding scion wood and I very much encourage trading and sharing. Once you have some good varieties, you can trade with others through online platforms, while making new fruit friends. Here are a few good places to trade scions.

SCION EXCHANGE: http://www.scion-exchange.com/trade/ This is a new free platform that describes itself as like a dating site for scion traders. It needs more users to become more viable. Check it out.

NORTH AMERICAN SCION EXCHANGE: Some years ago, my friend Andy Russell was complaining that there were no scion exchanges in his area. I suggested he start one. Instead, he and Little John started the North American Scion Exchange on FaceBook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/scionexchange/ This group has become quite active, with 5.5k members.

Another option is just making connections in fruit and nut groups on the internet. My favorite community is https://growingfruit.org It’s a friendly place full of both newbs and more experienced growers. It also includes a trading forum.

What I have not found is a European community for trading. If anyone can help with that, let me know and I’ll add it. Fruiteirs.net it seems has shut down. I get a lot of requests to send even common varieties to Europe, but I discourage casual overseas trading because of disease issues. Someone please start a good community for growers to trade material in Europe. I’ll promote it. Some of my varieties and many American varieties are already over there and should be traded there. Or if there is one I don’t know about, let me know. And ditto for other options here in the states, or in Canada or any other country. I rarely trade much anymore, or spend a lot of time in online interest groups, so there may be more good trading spots out there.

I also want to plug one commercial scion source, https://fruitwoodnursery.com run by my friend Mark Robbi. I know he has BITE ME! but I will also be trying to get him more of my seedling varieties as they come out. He ships to Europe too, so eventually that may be a way to get some of my seedling varieties if you are on that side of the pond.

Scions and apple seeds will be for sale in my webstore soon. As usual my supporters on Patreon will get first access to seeds and scions. I’ve restructured my patron tiers with 4 levels of access. 25.00 dollar and up patrons will have first 24 hour access with a 25% discount. The next three tiers will each get 24 hour access consecutively, before opening sales to the general public. If you’ve ever thought about supporting my work through Patreon, this is a good time. I’m trying to save up money for a down payment on a new homestead and get my monthly income high enough to afford land payments. I will announce when the store opens to the public here and on social media Instagram and Facebook @skillcult Also on Youtube. If you want notifications of new videos on YouTube, you have to subscribe and hit the notifications bell. Subscribing alone doesn’t mean you will be informed of new content.

I have a new seedling out this year available in the webstore, Cherry Crush. Most other new seedling will be put up for auction. I will probably use https://FigBid.com this year instead of ebay. Cherub however may go in the webstore as I have a lot of scions this year. I’m still trying to decide that. They won’t be cheap, but again with the homestead fund!