So, fortunately, there are not many leaves coming out of this Bradford pear seedling, assuming that is from the closest neighbor’s tree.
But here are a few more leaves popping out. The best photos of the rootstock leaves are still up there: the ones of the leaves on the root sucker that I took before grafting on to that.
The grafts are taking over virtually all the growth!
The apples are growing great.
One Asian pear is outgrowing Crispen on one side, but Winter Banana it’s outgrowing the Asian pear on the other side.
Cripp’s pink (Actually it’s supposed to be Mott’s Pink, I hope I made a mistake with the label not the Scion order) is doing great, even though it’s bark grafted and the lowest branch on the tree.
I’m pretty sure that the Apple-Pear Cross survived, and it might actually be another apple with good grafting abilities like Winter Banana and fruit that stays hard on the tree and ripens later like pears.
And I had three other apple grafts survive short term, one got broken by deer, and survived until I “fixed” it. Oops. Another was on this tree up high as an experiment as to what I could graft onto this thorny tractor-tire hazard
Now the important question:
Would you say that apples are fully graft compatible to Callery pear without an interstem, or at least generally are to their likely hybrid seedlings?
