I’d like to plant a Korean Giant and a Harrow Sweet next year, but I want them to stay pretty small, due to their planned location. I’m not seeing a lot of variety for rootstock options on pre-grafted trees at the usual places… might have to graft my own I guess. Not afraid of that, but it does get you a year ahead buying pregrafted if everything goes well.
Anyone know of a place that would sell such a thing as Korean Giant on OHxF 87 or smaller?
Have you tried Cummins Nursery? The put a lot on OHxF 87 though not sure about Korean giant in particular.
I second Cummins I think they have you covered on both.
I’m pretty sure cummins was putting their asian pears on oh x f 97 because there is some compatability issues with asians on european rootstocks and they felt the trees needed the extra vigor of the 97. From my personal observations asian pears can stay small on european rootstocks. I don’t think they live as long compared to asian rootstocks, but it will likely dwarf them.
Thanks for the replies. Cummins is my go to nursery usually since they have a great selection on dwarf and semi-dwarf roots for apple. All their asian pears are currently listed as being on OHxF 97, and even though they are smaller than euro pears it seems like that would still get pretty large. I’d like it to be 10-12’ eventually without having to prune the crap out of it every year.
@mamuang - what root is your KG on? I remember it being rather tall, which looks great in your backyard and of course a bigger tree can support more fruit. But that size tree would look a bit awkward in the place I have for it.
Mine is on an unknown rootstock, bought potted from a local nursery. I was told that at the time (2008) the popular “semi-dwarf” was OHxF 333. This thing if I don’t top it off, would easily go over 20 ft. Too tall for me. Every year, I have to climb a ladder to top it off. Even on the top of my ladder, I have had time reaching new shoots.
I ordered OHxF87 from Raintree this past spring. Grafted Euro pear on them. Will move them from pots to ground this fall.
At the time, even discounts, Raintree was a bit cheaper because Cummins’ shipping cost was higher. I love Cummins, too but it kills me with the shipping cost when I ordered 1-2 trees.
If you order rootstocks, I’ll send you KG scionwood.
Probably because it is the least vigorous of the readily available OHxF rootstocks. It’s suppose to be 1/2 standard. You would have to go with a quince to get something less vigorous, but don’t think they are compatible with asian pears. Not sure if an interstem could fix that.