hey cool results, interesting that the pears get top heavy on callery roostocks. I see the same thing with the pear grafts on saskatoon around our place, I figured they'll just need staking or tieing up.
Yeah, it was something that really surprised me. The first year I did a bunch of high grafts, and quite a few of them did end up falling over like the one at 12:31. Some I've decided to heavily top prune to try and give the trunk time to establish, and others like the one in the video I'm just seeing what happens. What is Saskatoon? I know it as a place and as a berry, but not in relation to pears.
There are many reasons. First, it's already there which means I don't need to buy rootstock, and it also means that it's a good fit for the environment, otherwise the seed never would have sprouted and turned into a tree big enough to graft onto. Secondly, by grafting onto them it removes their most invasive trait which is the small fruits that it produces. Instead I get to enjoy delicious edible pears (hopefully soon anyways). Third, it's an excellent rootstock. Florida still recommends it as a rootstock for pear trees. It is vigorous, precocious, and has good disease resistance. I personally don't recommend planting them, but if it's there anyways you may as well use it. And fourth, it gets rid of those smelly flowers.
hey cool results, interesting that the pears get top heavy on callery roostocks. I see the same thing with the pear grafts on saskatoon around our place, I figured they'll just need staking or tieing up.
Yeah, it was something that really surprised me. The first year I did a bunch of high grafts, and quite a few of them did end up falling over like the one at 12:31. Some I've decided to heavily top prune to try and give the trunk time to establish, and others like the one in the video I'm just seeing what happens. What is Saskatoon? I know it as a place and as a berry, but not in relation to pears.
Why the invasive pear tree that smells like crap?
There are many reasons. First, it's already there which means I don't need to buy rootstock, and it also means that it's a good fit for the environment, otherwise the seed never would have sprouted and turned into a tree big enough to graft onto. Secondly, by grafting onto them it removes their most invasive trait which is the small fruits that it produces. Instead I get to enjoy delicious edible pears (hopefully soon anyways). Third, it's an excellent rootstock. Florida still recommends it as a rootstock for pear trees. It is vigorous, precocious, and has good disease resistance. I personally don't recommend planting them, but if it's there anyways you may as well use it. And fourth, it gets rid of those smelly flowers.