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  • From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Of rabbits and OHxF/accidental bonsai...
  • Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 17:58:22 +0000

Mr. F. Bunny,

I was just about to post a question on pears & rootstocks. I have one of those questions re an unknown variety (maybe the same unknown as the 'St Sophie' from that fellow in Ontario some weeks ago) behaving differently on 2 rootstocks. Grows like a weed on Bartlet and on OHxF 333, but eventually always rejected by the OHxF. Not really a problem, in the big picture, because I'm thinking I'm due to add more cross-pollinators to my mix. Bloom time for "my" pear is between the local wild plums and the first apples. Any suggestions from the more experienced pear people out there, for a variety to graft onto the OHxF ?

Tanis Cuff, southern WI, zone 4 (zone 5 the last few winters !)






From: fuwa fuwa usagi <fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com>
Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] Of rabbits and accidental bonsai...
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 01:56:28 -0800 (PST)

Gang:

Several years ago I started experimenting with pears in regard rootstocks, variety, and fireblight resistance for my area.

I have had excellent results with OHxF 333 and OHxF 282 with one minor exception.

My Seckles on OHxF seem to produce bonsai trees. And cute as they are, they are simply not what I had in mind. These trees were about 14 inches tall in their 6th year and pencil width in diameter. By contrast everything else on these rootstocks is consistent in size and around 8 feet in the 6th year.

Now I understand that Seckle is normally a medium sized tree around 12-14 feet maximum, so I expected something of dwarfing effect on the OHxF rootstocks I chose, but I anticipated a mature tree around 8 feet, not a bonsai.

I suspected that perhaps the scion wood I used had a latent virus, but I obtained the wood from Corvallis and the index was clean. Still unable to unravel this mystery, I took a couple of buds from one of the existing trees and grafted it onto a Harrow Sweet tree that was also on OHxF 333 (started in the same year as the Seckles), this tree is around 8 feet tall and has fruited.

Anyway I got about 15 inches of growth of the Seckle scion when grafted onto harrow sweet. Therefore I do not think a virus is the problem.

So that makes me think of incompatibility, which would seem rather odd as I have never heard any reported and Magness (Comice x Seckle) probably does better on OHXF rootstocks than on anything else and exhibits no compatibility problems.

Anyway I am curious if others have grafted Seckle on OHxF 333 or OHxF 282 and what the results have been.

Very truly yours,

the fluffy bunny

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