Scripture makes reference to grafting. Paul includes the reference in his epistle to the Romans, and indicates grafting is not an unusual concept at all. I do not have the greenest of thumbs, so I'm just grateful to see leaves and produce, but I have had grafting explained to me and I've read about it. Basically, a limb or branch is cut at a particularly precise place then a split is made, also at a particularly precise place on the tree in which it is to be grafted.
The sap which flows from the roots is what nourishes that newly grafted branch. From what I've read, that branch will continue to bear the fruit of it's origin and is only nourished by the life flow of the tree into which it's grafted. So various apples could realistically all grow on different branches being fed by the sap flowing from the same roots, if grafted properly. Paul's reference was a wild olive branch onto a cultivated olive tree.
Scripture has more to say about agriculture, and one of the specific DO NOTs is to not cross seeds in the same field. That is completely different than grafting. Crossing pollination results in a grain or produce that is no longer original and the seeds will not reproduce either original plant and often will not produce the modified fruit that has resulted. Cross pollination of species actually changes the genetics of the organism. Not to mention, our modern GMOs actually contain DNA of organisms that are not just a different grain or vegetable, but are bacteria or even animal DNA.
I live in a state in which the politicians keep telling us grafting and GMO are the same, but Scripture indicates otherwise.
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