Wild callery pear rootstocks

[benthegirl]

I posted a picture of the curly growth here:

Grafting on Bradford Pear

I find that bending pears is really difficult and they seem more likely to break than apples and peaches. I’ve broken non-graft pear branches trying to bend them. Those would have bent easily if they’d been apple. I think @scottfsmith said he’d noticed the same thing once. I’ve grafted a lot of euro pear onto mystery landscape pear - the ones by me aren’t necessarily true "Bradford, they’re probably some hybrid thing. They still have the really upright branches and really pretty Fall foliage…

Clark also had a tree that looked like this and he seemed to think it would grow more normally with time.

I looked up pear yellows and I don’t think it’s anything like that. The tree is looking very good with lots of nice leaves and the graft looks good - just curved branches.