I was wondering if grafting different types of fruit trees
(Apple, Peach,lemon...) on a fig tree was possible?
Not that i would ever do that, but what a great conversation
tree that would be

If you can't find any information on the subject, then maybe a little experimentation would be in order...
we have a member on the forum who has been doing some very interesting root grafting...never seen it done before, but it held my interest, and I'm sure it was a fun project...so maybe take an unknown variety that you can use as the root stock in the experiment and perform some grafts and see what happens...
could be fun, and who knows.....?? maybe you will stumble onto something....have a great time, and maybe post some pictures of the project !!

I don't think that would work.  JMHO.  It would be like putting a human arm on a fish.  I can't see it.

Suzi

It would be nice if it would work .
 Perhaps a fig and a mulberry .

You never know....here's an ear on a mouse...

So,,,various grafts with fig types and more are out there.

I mean the do it with other fruit trees, and they call them cocktails trees,i don't see why
you can't do it on a fig tree

Can't be done....incompatible genetics.  Figs on figs... yes....citrus on figs.. not so much.

Frank

They have to be moracae family members.  Generally other fairly close Ficus members.

Try Jackfruit on fig stock!  But that's about as wild and crazy as you can get, and highly unlikely to work.

The cocktail trees are 1 type of fruit.  Several citrus on 1 tree or a few different types of apple on 1 tree.  Not an apple on an orange tree.  Trees have immune systems and will try to destroy foreign tissue.

Here Is A Fruit Cocktail Tree

Stone fruit AKA peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, stuff like that are in the family prunus.

Olives : Olea

Wine grapes:  Vitis

Figs:  Ficus Carica... Not sure you could graft a Carica onto a Benjamina.  Both Ficus.

Here is where you messed up.  Where are the figs?  I don't see one!  And East Coast, New York?  You think you can grow citrus, bananas?  Are those kiwis?  Where are the figs in that picture?

:-))
Suzi

He ate them already! LOL

I just grafted a winter banana apple onto my pear tree but that is the most compatible apple to pears genetically from what I hear. Im still waiting to see if it takes. It would be interesting to see if a mulberry would take with a fig since they are in the same family, but I'm about 90 percent sure it would fail, I mean just look at how different the fruits are. You just about always have to stay in the same genus, except for a few quinces apples and pears that are closely related.

i wish we can have this to save space

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Originally Posted by Dave
Here Is A Fruit Cocktail Tree

Bob made a good clarification; The trees need to be closely related to get grafts to take. Citrus to various types of citrus, etc. Also grafting various stone fruits onto one rootstock should work as Suzi mentioned. Theoretically, you could have Cherries, Peaches, Almonds, Plums, and Apricots all growing on the same tree. Having the right rootstock would play a big part here too though.

I would be interested to see whether grafting fig to mulberry would work though. Just might give it a shot in a month or so ;) .

@ Cal. it's much more about genetics than how similar the fruits compare to each other. Take Hedge Apple and Seedless Che for example. The fruits don't look much alike at all but Seedless Che is routinely grafted onto Hedge Apple. Not saying fig & mulberry would work either though. But it might be fun to try just to observe the results.

It's sometimes tough enough getting grafts to take on trees that are siblings let alone trying to get unrelated fruit tree grafts to take. Unfortunately, many combonations are just not gonna work. 

Figs can possibly be grafted into other ficus species. There was a mention of figs being grafted into a ficus benjamina in Florida in early 1900's, but no mention if how long the graft remained alive.
The cocktail fruit trees commonly sold are prunus species. I have a jujube tree that I grafts 8 different types to it. But you cannot graft figs on anything besides figs.

Has anyone had success with grafting onto ficus benjamina?

What about non-hardy figs onto a hardy root stock?

Ficus genus contains 800+ species but F. carica can be grafted on 5 of them fully compatible...
These are:

Ficus johannis
Ficus pseudo-carica
Ficus palmata
Ficus sycomorus
Ficus racemosa

Partially compatible:

Ficus pumila
Ficus botryocarpa
Ficus variegata
Ficus deltoidea

..... and so on.....