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Well, IMHO, for home production, I'm willing to see somewhat 
smaller fruit in order to get aid in size control.  I'm not much for climbing 
up into the sky.  I have seen Asians runt out, but I believe that if that 
happens and you catch it at
the right time, pruning can help stimulate it to put on vegatative growth, 
plus probably staying away from OHxF 333.

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6


>I was surfing on the topic of pears rootstocks and found this site which 
>says that "no Euro pear rootstock has enough vigor for Asian pears except 
>for the more vigorous OH x F clones". The result I gather is smaller fruit, 
>thus the prefered variety is betulifolia which is very vigorous.
>Here is the site
http://eesc.orst.edu/agcomwebfile/edmat/html/pnw/pnw341/pnw341.html#anchor343435



>Kevin Bradley
>2301 S Park St #24
>Madison, WI 53713
>608-256-2659>