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  • From: Suzi Teghtmeyer <srt175f@smsu.edu>
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  • Cc: plb711t@smsu.edu
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] starting Pears
  • Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:51:32 -0500

Hi Rondi,
We are about 120 miles east of Joplin, MO, so what you go through, we here at the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station goes through. I asked our Fruit Grower Advisor, Patrick Byers, what varieties are grown around here and he said the following: "Fireblight resistance is the primary criteria in the Midwest. I would suggest Starking Delicious, Maxine, Magness, Moonglow, and Kieffer."

As to grafting mature pears, I located the following extension publication online:
Grafting Techniques to Topwork Existing Trees
http://www.ces.uga.edu/pubcd/B818.htm#Topwork
T-budding is often used to topwork apple and pear trees 3 years of age of less. Older apple, pear and persimmon trees are topworked using cleft or bark grafts. The saw-kerf graft is primarily used to topwork peach, nectarine and plum trees.
Main page: http://www.ces.uga.edu/pubcd/B818.htm

I hope this will help you out.
-----Suzi Teghtmeyer
Librarian, Paul Evans Library of Fruit Science
Southwest Missouri State University Mtn. Grove Campus and Missouri Fruit Experiment Station
9740 Red Spring Rd, Mountain Grove, MO 65711
Phone: 417-926-4105, Fax: 417-926-6646, email: srt175f@smsu.edu
URL: http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/
AgNIC Viticulture site: http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/viticulture1.shtml
Member: CBHL, USAIN, ALA, ACRL, IAALD

At 08:18 PM 10/18/2003 -0500, Rondi wrote:
Hi,
This summer I've kept my eye open for old pear trees that as winter comes I
would introduce myself to their owners and to attempt to get cuttings. Then
it dawned on me that maybe they could be healed in and possibly started from
cuttings. Can they?

One of my goals with the pears is to grow them on rootstock that has been
proven to handle our climate here in SE Kansas; humid, hot and late summer
drought. So the next question is what is the likelihood of these 40, 50 and
60 (I believe) year old trees of being grafted? Are there other ways to use
the trees as root stock?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Rondi





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