How to grow pears without a pear tree.
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- In this video I explain how we're growing pears without using a pear tree.
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Oh cool. Have seen apple and pear swapped onto the other stock tree. But not on hawthorn before. 🙂 Made me remember a lot of grafting experiments my and my Nanna did together.
Excellent! You are bringing so much variety to the Far North.
Thanks!
That's very cool! I didn't know pear could take on hawthorn at all 🤩
Medlar too, it's a very cool technique.
That's interesting. In Norway pears are traditionally grafted onto rowan stocks since the climate is too cold for pear trees. I've never heard about hawthorn being used as stock before though.
Wow!! Great, GREAT idea! Gonna try this-- yes, i love pears, and have other trees, and live in a remote area, no produce available to buy. Thanks, and best wishes 🍐🌱
Thanks!
Unbelievable this, didn't even know you could do stuff like this. How do you graft it to the tree? Have you got a previous video
I'm not great at grafting yet, so haven't made a video on it. But it's a simple cleft graft, there a loads of good resources on the subject on RUclips.
I wonder could you do a hawthorn pear cross....
As far as I'm aware they won't hybridise.
Amazing! Just wanted to ask - I notice you've planted lots of stuff in your ditch! We have a ditch running round our croft too and I've been tempted to plant willow all along it since it's nice and wet. Did you have any concerns about drainage being inhibited at all? Or even legal issues if it's running beside a road like ours? Not technically sure I'm allowed to do it since it's a public road either, but oh well - guerilla gardening!
I've planted along the top of the bank rather than in the ditch itself, so there shouldn't be an issue.
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture that's a solid shout!
This is really cool. Do you know if it will produce fruit? You can always wait for the grafts on the wild pears if it doesn't.
It should produce fruit soon, because it's effectively an old tree already.
Grafting is just a great wonder of nature. I would like to better understand what would be the most appropriate state of the tree that would be used a host. I assume one should aim for the healthiest, well established and local climate hardy tree they can find. Did you go for the hawthorn mostly because you had it available?
Yes, mostly. I have a lot of wild pear in the shelterbelts I'll graft to later, but they're too young yet.