Sale of Callery pear trees completely banned in several states

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I’m trying crosses of BET x callery. Callery are band that is true but are trees that are 10 - 30% callery and don’t look like it? It might be interesting to you to know BET doesn’t produce tons of seed like callery. There is almost 0% chance of BET being banned. They have wicked thorns and strong growth making callery look weak. They are not as resistant to fireblight and that is a shame. BET quickly succumb to fireblight if left unchecked. Make sure you graft them over to fireblight resistant trees. If you interstem with pears like orient , kieffer, pineapple etc. It should be ok. If you want to know more check out this thread

Grafting large Callery and Betulifolia pear rootstocks

These callery are over 30 feet tall now but in this photo they were only a few years old. The foliage can be very brightly colored. In the fall red or orange leaves make callery very easy to find. My callery are all red leaf varities. In the spring or summer the foliage of wild callery is more green like the previous post. [467d43f8846d9014b2e175ff4a28ab8e950972a6.jpeg] If you want to know how to top work larger pears that can be seen here