Are you referring to quince or ohxf333 or another rootstock? Many things like aronia, cotton easter, hawthorn etc. can be used to dwarf pears. There is different degrees of success based on what you use. Apples and pears are not compatible but they are pomes so they can be partially compatible at least for a time. Apples such as winter banana are more compatible with pears than others. There are much better choices for dwarfing apples than pears.
As grafters we all eventually come to the conclusion that some things are easier to graft than others. Apples such as Winter Banana are highly compatible grafts with most any apple tree rootstock or fruiting apple tree for that matter. Frequently grafters who learn this trick may learn to use Winter Banana apples as an Interstem for other things, in extreme cases even pears. It is possible to graft pears to apple or apples to pears but that’s not the scope of what I’m trying to accomplish with …
Which of these pear semi-dwarf rootstocks are best for early bearing, productivity, and toleration of wet, clay soil (growing zone 7a, Tenn.)??
OHxF87 vs. OHxF333 vs. Quince A
Thanks for your collective wisdom from experience!
I’m a keen hobbyist growing pears in a very harsh central Alberta climate. How harsh? -42C has been my coldest. My average winter low is -37C. This winter for example it hit -38C in late December as the coldest. So the rules for growing pears for me are 1/ They must be able to survive -40C. 2/ They must be able to survive -40C 3/They must be able to survive -40C. There are a few more main rules, but I bet you can guess what they are
Hi all,
I would like to get your opinion on which dwarf or semi-dwarf apple rootstocks are best for multiple disease resistance and others for growing in the Mid Atlantic VA. USDA zone 8a near the coast with clay below the 16”-22” of topsoil.
Thanks for your knowledgeable feedback!
I did a search here and didn’t find what I was looking for.
I know folks have grafted pear scions to hawthorns successfully (not sure about long term). What I’d like to know is if there are certain pear cultivars that are more likely to be successful than others?
I think the hawthorns I’d like to graft are downy hawthorns, but I am not 100% sure. I’ve got at least two-three different species of hawthorns here. Those that I’m targeting to graft pears to are some of the larger specimens I hav…
Anyone using Aronia as a rootstock for anything? I have a Shipova on one, very slow growing. Supposedly it will hasten fruiting.
I’m wondering if pears would take? If I have extra scion wood this winter I may try it out.
I tried to create some miniature pear trees by grafting onto serviceberry, aronia,and Chinese haw. The ones on seviceberrry and aronia both took but remained too tiny after two years so I threw them away, The one on Chinese haw is thriving, maybe too much for my miniaturizing ambition. Im not sure of the cultivar, the tree was here when I bought the property. I think it looks like Nijisseiki.
I cant remember for certain. I believe at the time I was looking at research reports regarding dwa…
Clara frijs, douglas, small yellow pear, farmingdale, harrow delight, clapps favorite , improved kieffer, harrow sweet are extremely easy pears to graft. You might be wondering why do we care or need this information? The hard pears to graft such as ayer not ayers for me failed on every callery i tried it on. The difficult to graft callery pears in every case i was able to graft with my small yellow pear , harrow delight, farmingdale or as a last resort clara frijs or douglas. That means if y…
It’s much better if i don’t let a callery go to long but occasionally I do. There is a big difference between a 2 and 3 year old callery. This one was more like 4 years old i think because it was in an older orchard it got overlooked twice. Clearly the grafts failed and it should have been t- bud grafted. Planting large amounts of rootstocks then grafting them in 1 or 2 years is a great strategy at my orchard. Allowing the roots to get established gives the tree more resistantance to dro…
Top working Pears weather permitting today. I don’t like grafting with these temperature swings we are getting but I can’t wait much longer or it will get to hot. This is my first grafts of the year. Might as well just jump right in. Grafting this one and several others to Douglas. Wish me luck! How’s your grafting going? [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image]
I’ve heard of many people putting pears on quince to dwarf the tree. Quince on pear is something I have not heard of. England’s nursery has quince scions. Some quince are not fireblight prone.Any reason to not graft quince to pears?
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