Grafting Quince onto Pear?

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This might help

What pears are quince compatible?

Many of you are aware pears grafted on a quince rootstock produce very fast. Thought it might be nice to start a thread on the pears that are compatible http://www.ars-grin.gov/cor/catalogs/pyrcompatible.html. This is additional information Quince as Pear Rootstock - Fruit & Nut Research & Information Center This document has an extensive list of compatibility of many pears http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/nafex/attachments/20120114/48efdf88/attachment.pdf Fasinating document discussing pea…

Quince on pear

I’ve heard of many people putting pears on quince to dwarf the tree. Quince on pear is something I have not heard of. England’s nursery has quince scions. Some quince are not fireblight prone.Any reason to not graft quince to pears?

What pears are quince compatible?

The bulgarian quince that developed rust in this post Who's growing Quince? later proved incompatible grafted to pear and died. Delayed failure is to be expected with quince grafted to pear

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Pear grafted to hawthorn

I did a search here and didn’t find what I was looking for. I know folks have grafted pear scions to hawthorns successfully (not sure about long term). What I’d like to know is if there are certain pear cultivars that are more likely to be successful than others? I think the hawthorns I’d like to graft are downy hawthorns, but I am not 100% sure. I’ve got at least two-three different species of hawthorns here. Those that I’m targeting to graft pears to are some of the larger specimens I hav…