Large fruited Bradford (callery) pear

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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…

Found pear seedling ID

What are these seedlings? Are they a weirdly large fruited callery? A callery x something? [IMG_1254] [IMG_1260] These are two different seedlings. Both are mostly thornless. The spurs have a mildly pointed tip, but nothing crazy. One has sickly yellow foliage and is half the size of its sister planted 5’ away. There is also a third, not pictured with no fruit and nasty, callery like thorns. The two that fruited did bloom close in time with local callery. I don’t remember driving past many f…

Callery Pear Fruit

Has anyone ever tasted the fruit of callery pear? I’ve tasted green ones before. Saturday I found a tree that had the usual green fruit but it also had some that were brown. I picked one. It was mushy soft. It was good. I ate a hand full and have since gone back for more. Some were over ripe and they weren’t good.

Prolific or invasive? adapting plants are friend or foe?

Nature has a system of checks and balances. Many plants are at odds with natures system and survive only because of mans intervention. Wild calleryana pears for example do not need us. They grow prolifically and reproduce quickly in some locations. Blackberry are the same way frequently producing though they have not been assisted. Mulberry is also immune to predators and disease’s. I’m suggesting maybe we should listen more to what natures saying and start planting seeds to create new vari…