Starting fruit trees from cuttings?

I have found some sites on line that showed how to take a tree limb still on a fruit tree and slice 1/2 of the back off of it for something like 3 or 4 inches, and then wraping it in gauze, (just like you use for a cut on a human body), and then wetting the gauze with a root tone type of mixture and then covering it with plastic and taping it at both ends.

According to what I read, you could take any size cutting from the tree and do it meaning if you were going to prune a tree that had a limb that was 6 to 8 feet long, you ended up with a tree that was rooted good and ready to put into a five gallon planting pot of potting soil and would have a pretty good sized tree the first year.

I have a friend that is starting an orchard and doing very well with it I might add.

He already has 5 apples, 4 peaches, 3 pears, 3 plums 3 cherry, and some others that I forget right now, but he has a total of 31 different type of fruit trees that are already setting fruit. I mean each apple tree is different types from each other, etc. but Steve wants to prune a few whole limbs from every one of the trees he has and some of them is more than an inch wide and 6 to 8 feet long.

I have 20 acres of field here behind the house and he only has 6 acres and most of that is either wooded or already a garden.

If any of you great people out there can point me to a site that shows how to wrap them up and root them, I'd be happy to send you a rooting of each one of the trees for shipping cost only. 31 trees will start your own mini orchard, LOL.

I have just got to find the site that shows how to do it so Steve can read it himself. If I get it going right I can get more than 100 trees already about 6 feet tall from get go here just from his pruning.

But he is scared if he does it that it will "bleed the tree to death" as he says it.

I looked at it good and I fully understand how it wooks but he has to see it before he does it. And I hat to see him through away a hundred or more future trees.

Any help finding a site that shows how would sure be appriciated.

Thanks ahead for any help, and as I said, I'll send whoever hooks me up with some baby trees if they want and the trees he bought cost from $34.99 up to $69 each.

Dennis

I am not sure if my e-mail is on here but it is

dennis_phillips7@yahoo.com

Thanks again.