Found pear seedling ID

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@Nutbush-VA

Yes, your ornamental callery pear has crossed with a fruiting pear. Please see this link it is not the first time i have seen this

The next step in pear rootstocks is clearly callery or gmo

The good soil and best farms are taken so where does the person just starting out buy their farm when the good land is gone and very expensive to get? The secret is in the rootstocks. As many of you know this is my long term belief to adapt plants to live on marginal property. I believe in 100% self sufficiency. Callery rootstocks adapt which is thought to be bad but its not its actually very good. They are only bad in areas where they are an invasive. Imagine you can afford to buy land that…

Large Fruit on Callery Pear

I’ve been cleaning up some trees in my neighborhood and came across a row of neglected Callery pears planted near a fence line. I was surprised when I came across the tree below with these large fruit on branches from the suckers growing at the base of the trunk. The rest of the tree has the small fruit typical of Callery pears. Anyone seen anything like this? Could it be that the trees were grafted to rootstock that would yield large fruit like this? Any other explanations? [IMG_5469] […