Pear Grafting on Bradford Pear Rootstock

[boog...@aol.com]

Hey yall,

Anyone here have experience with grafting different pear varieties onto Callery/Bradford pear rootstock? I have a client who's interested in trying it on some volunteer Callery/Bradford pears. Trees in question are about 2-3 years old. I could use suggestions on good places, preferably nearby, to purchase disease resistant varieties of scionwood and maybe a reference to a competent grafter. Not looking to do this until March, presuming that is the best time. Just doing research right now. Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Bret C. Duncan

[greg mosser]

short answer: yes. some of us have been using calleryana as rootstock for quite some time. as far as i know all european pears will work fine. march might be the right time, maybe a little later. you generally want good bark-slip (even if the technique used doesn't require slipping the bark). 

anyone want to weigh in about sources for scion? i could probably have some moonglow available then...

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[Ramin Wilson Sadeghian]

Edible park and Montford rec center have some good mother trees for scion wood.

On Friday, January 9, 2015 at 4:51:23 PM UTC-5, Greg Mosser wrote:

short answer: yes. some of us have been using calleryana as rootstock for quite some time. as far as i know all european pears will work fine. march might be the right time, maybe a little later. you generally want good bark-slip (even if the technique used doesn't require slipping the bark). 

anyone want to weigh in about sources for scion? i could probably have some moonglow available then...

On Friday, January 9, 2015 12:53 PM, boogaluu via Buncombe Fruit and Nut Club <buncombefruitnuts@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hey yall,

Anyone here have experience with grafting different pear varieties onto Callery/Bradford pear rootstock? I have a client who's interested in trying it on some volunteer Callery/Bradford pears. Trees in question are about 2-3 years old. I could use suggestions on good places, preferably nearby, to purchase disease resistant varieties of scionwood and maybe a reference to a competent grafter. Not looking to do this until March, presuming that is the best time. Just doing research right now. Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Bret C. Duncan

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I have two varieties of pears that could yield some scion wood. Anybody have some apple scions to trade? I have a crabapple just waiting to receive some fruit bearing branches.

Jeff G

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From: Ramin Wilson Sadeghian
Date: Saturday, January 10, 2015 1:23 pm
Subject: Re: Pear Grafting on Bradford Pear Rootstock
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> Edible park and Montford rec center have some good mother trees
> for scion
> wood.
>
> On Friday, January 9, 2015 at 4:51:23 PM UTC-5, Greg Mosser wrote:
> >
> > short answer: yes. some of us have been using calleryana as
> rootstock for
> > quite some time. as far as i know all european pears will work
> fine. march
> > might be the right time, maybe a little later. you generally
> want good
> > bark-slip (even if the technique used doesn't require slipping
> the bark).
> >
> > anyone want to weigh in about sources for scion? i could
> probably have
> > some moonglow available then...
> >
> >
> > On Friday, January 9, 2015 12:53 PM, boogaluu via Buncombe
> Fruit and

> > email to buncombefruitn...@googlegroups.com.

> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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[gabrielle white]

Duncan et. al.

I would like to have a scion swap this year. I think Mid March is a good time. I'm happy to host at my house or a larger space. Duncan I don't know you you'd buy scion from, though I believe Bill Whipple might know.

I and some other friendly nutters have grafted on some pear scions to 3 year old bradford peard trees at the stump dump this spring. They were about 12feet tall and we cut them down pretty hard, then grafted onto them. A lot of them took (even with our beginner grafters, woo hoo!) On a side note, we need to make sure this spring we rub off buds happening before the scionwood to push energy into the scion growth. From what I observed there is A LOT of continuous pruning to do on Bradfords. They want to grow reproduce like the earth wants to circle the sun. I think it's worth a shot to try to graft them as it's all an experiment to me, and diversity in the egg basket is important. I think the benefits from growing on small bradford whip instead of a larger tree or caleriana rootstock or whatever is the standard rootstock people use for pears would be that it can save time as it needs less pruning. 

There was one man at the Michael Phillips workshop in Mills River who had started grafting on bradfords. Goodheart was there, maybe he remembers who that guy was.

And Re: where to get scion wood. We swapped a bunch last year. I know of a pear tree in Asheville I REALLY enjoyed, so I"m going to get some from that tree. Bill Whipple has pear trees at his farm in West Virginia, and you can ask through this group for folks to look for pear trees with the characteristics you want and maybe they can get you scion or maybe you can get it yourself. Folks will be doing prunings at edible parks, which is also a source for scionwood.

How to get scionwood? Find a tree you like because of desired traits; it is disease resistant, tasty, fruit keeps well, etc cut off 8" or so from the tip with hand pruners.  Put that wood in a plastic bag, LABEL IT, with a piece of damp newspaper and keep it cold (like putting in a fridge). Wait until scion swap and/or when spring juices are flowing up and trees are leafing out (like april, may, june) and graft away. You can bud graft into the late summer, but the whip and tongue technique into early summer as I understand, is best.

If anyone has specific needs for varieties of scionwood,  let the group know. As we are going about our lives and are pruning this winter, we can save for you and give at the swap.

To this years scion swap I will be bringing my favorite apple from a 30 year old tree here in Asheville, and a pear scionwood from a very healthy productive tree that had AMAZING pears for eating, canning, and drying. Just amazing dried pears. I think I have a rosemary cutting or two to give away. too.

Peace y'all

Gabi

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