Montmorency and Mott Pink

[Chikn]

@mrsg47

Have been a little crazed.

Know that feeling!

[Trav]

Wonderful! I think I’ve got a bunch of Mott’s Pink grafted, including on this Apple-Pear Frankentree, but I mixed up my labels, I think, and it might actually be a Cripp’s Pink on that tree.

I’m excited to try Mott’s Pink, pink Pearl, Rubyat, and their crosses.

I’ll ask my dad to get a picture of the flowers in the spring, and it should be clear.

Apple-Pear Frankentrees on unknown wild tree

So I found, what appeared to be a thorny pear tree and tried to graft Asian pears on it last year, when that failed (late on and first year grafting) I tried an apple scion and it took. So this year I tried again and went crazy with it. The grafts on it are: Crispen apple Cripps Pink apple Winner Banana apple Apple-Pear Cross (That’s the name) Clara Frijs pear 2 Asian pears of unknown varieties. They’re growing great… it had straight thorns on all the 1" and under branches, I’m guessing…

[AndySmith]

I’ve been meaning to to show @mrsg47 how well my Mott’s Pink are doing this year:

[mamuang]

What rootstocks do you use? Nice trees. Very neat and organized.

[AndySmith]

The Mott’s Pink are on M.111, but the apples range from standard to dwarf. P.18, B.118, M.111, M,106, G,890, M,7, G.210, G,222, B.9, and G.214. The rootstocks are grouped together by type and rows start as standards. As you move across the orchard the rootstocks become more dwarfing. Each group of root stocks is planted out alphabetically by cultivar.