Attempting to Graft onto a Cleveland Pear

[lordkiwi]

Cleveland pear is a cultivar to Callery. You can find more info in this thread.

Callery pear as rootstock?

Olpea, My experience is callery like all rootstocks like some pears better than others. Duchess, Kieffer, seckel. Clapps favorite, Douglas, Clara frijs all take without issues. Duchess will be delayed and look like it did not take because it will be a month or two until it leafs out. Ayers was hit and miss as were many others so maybe 50-60% takes. Chojuro on my trees was 100% fail 100% of the time as an example. A friend mentioned similar experience with ohxf rootstocks with certain pears…