Thanks!
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Pears are usually grafted. But starting some Callery rootstock - well around here there’s trees all over the place - schools post offices city streets etc. Just collect the “berries” and theb separate seeds and they sprout easily enough. If your fancy and not cheap like i am, you can biy rootstock but yes. I havent had any luck rooting pear cutings … yet. I’m stubborn though and I’ll keep on trying.
I looked into the flagstaff/sedona area for living. The zone does not mean a lot. When there we had colder nights than we have in CO. My mother came expecting the weather you would expect in Phoenix AZ and told me she never thought she would say she needed a coat in AZ. Flagstaff gets more rain in the summer than you think. Flagstaff gets a lot of flooding (funny since flagstaff is one of the most expensive places to live in AZ with me seeing houses around the 1 million mark while Wollcott or Prescott have houses in the 100k-200k range). In fact monsoon season is during the summer time or at least it was in July.
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We get merciless cold in the Winter.
In my experiment earlier this year; Dorsett Golden apple did indeed root with fine hairy roots. But the leaf out killed them. Not enough root to support the vigor I guess.
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Greenhouse. Or ziploc bag over it. Or both.
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There are different techniques in bud grafting.
With T-budding you want the bark to be slipping. Thus the tree is not dormant.
With chip budding you can graft almost all year. (depending on temp/species. You need high enough temp for good callousing.)
Im not sure who told you to wait till dormancy to bud graft. Or why they did.
But if you can chip bud and have graft wood available. You can graft now. You might need to paint over the graft to protect it from to much sun.
Most EU pears don’t root easily. There are some exceptions know to be able to strike hardwood cuttings though. Like bonne louise d’avranches
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Sorry, I misspoke–I think I meant that I learned that grafting should be done with dormant wood (at least with Apple), so this made me ask some questions.
apples are some of the easiest to (bud) graft.
If had good success rates grafting them in december to june with dormant wood. And in august to oktober with new non dormant wood. By chip budding. In my climate. Although I’m sure i could probably graft them year round here.