After tomorrow, I’ll know if I have extra medlar scionwood. Would anyone like my extra scionwood? Preferably closer to Philadelphia to cut down on time in the mail.
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What varieties do you have?
KhalKheti and Nottingham and “Paradise nursery’s Persian”… maybe Flanders Giant and Royal.
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I’m interested in those. I also have some leftover apple and pear scions if you are interested.
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If i am interested in scion either way what do you wreckamend to grafted medlar to or what kind of apple pear scion
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what are you guys grafting to?
I graft onto quince rootstock, or onto existing medlar tree.
vs funkier options like interstem grafts or things people may not have like Hawthorne.
im not sure directly on pear rootstock.
I’ve got one on pear and one on quince.
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I’d be up for trying out the Kha Kheti if you prove to have enough to spread around. Wouldn’t need a lot.
I use Callery pear for root stock
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I have 2.5 KhalKheti, 2 Nottingham (all of the top buds budding out but should be fine), 2 Flanders Giant and .5 Royal, n a few Paradise Nursery Persian’s i think.
Please email me your addresses and ill try and split up (had a 4th person also message me) so I’ll have to split up into 4
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I missed this question. This would likely go onto an existing Medlar or Hawthorn for me. I’ve usually had some leftover Province Quince to play with when I’ve grafted before. I’ve also had decent luck with Aronia and Amelanchier. One of those last two has actually given me my strongest growth; I’d have to look back at notes to say which.
I’ve not had luck with Medlar on Pear, even when a nursery did the graft. They don’t necessarily fail, they just don’t demonstrate any motivation.
And Hawthorn likes to try to take over, so you have to either be on top of sprouts until it gives up, or bury the graft.
Apparently pear on hawthorn works better b/c someone who owned the land around here did that a lot. A lone reestablished hawthorn is why I have some to play with and the successes are why my neighbor inherited most of his mature fruit trees.
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I did medlar grafts onto Washington hawthorn a couple years ago. The grafts have grown with high vigor, but I worry the graft unions don’t look strong. Last year I tried medlar on quince. They initially appeared successful, but then died come summer. I just now grafted a bunch of medlar scions onto Aronia to see if they’d work as nurse roots (later burying the graft union).
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How well did serviceberry work for you? Quince root has done well for me, but grafting onto pear has been the best.
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I sent to some medlar to @Robert , @hobilus , @Mtncj , and @richardburnett
Free of charge, pay it forward to someone.
A few got quince and some random pawpaw crosses as well.
Thanks @JohnS for Kha Kheti and Nottingham which some people got.
PS: Nottingham was budding out at the top when i recieved a month ago.
I kept it in the fridge stable at that stage (hasn’t budded out more) before grafting.
It probably will bud-out a bit more during shipping, but the lower buds hopefully are still dormant (or if its just budding out and not leafing out, i think some of that stretchy clear buddy tape carefully wrapped around those parts should keep the bud from drying out so graft union has chance to occur. I’ve done these kinds of grafts with half-budded scion in past successfully ).
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I’ve had grafts take, but the deer (and maybe the groundhogs) around here like service berry and aronia so much that I don’t have anything Amelanchier in ground that has lasted to today, and last winter was the first that I got temp fencing up enough to give anything of or on aronia a chance to show off. (I found trying to deflect from my whole yard was not enough. I had to leave the yard open and surround each tree somehow.) I may have something in a pot that made it, but we’re not quite at the stage where I can unfence my pots and not just be shouting “free lunch” to them and the shorter creatures scavenging at present.
Quince has been my best for Medlar by far. Hawthorn next. None of my grafts onto pear have made it and the couple I bought already on pear are my weakest growers. Nottingham gets shorter every year, but it hasn’t given up. Could be critters like the roots or nearby pears are sharing something I cannot see, but there is no pear foliage available to be a direct vector.
Something the deer nibble on around here stunts all the things they favor until I snip the twigs back to a new bud. The apples fare best against it, but they are also bigger.
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Received a Marron Medlar from OneGreenWorld. It seems a bit precocious. Mine came large in caliper and pruned to fit the box, yet was already carrying 6 fruit. Other extra year old trees of mine show no fruit at that caliper.
If callery pears work as rootstock then maybe I should try to get some medlar scionwood next year. Good way to get some use out of those invasive pears. I’ve been interested in trying medlars ever since I looked into them earlier this year. They sound tasty and might make interesting breeding stock for my intergeneric hybrids (and possibly some intrageneric ones too depending on what genus you consider it to be in)
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I am encountering an issue with my grafted ‘Royal’ Medlar on Quince rootstock, which is in it’s 3rd year in ground.
Grew very well for the first 2 years and even set a small crop, but this year shortly after breaking dormancy, all the new growth slowly begins to wither and eventually die. Branches are still alive and the cambium seems green and healthy. All the other plants in it’s vicinity are thriving.
have any photos?
