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["Jim Cooper" <JCooper@lewiston.k12.id.us>]

If I have a few grafts that I put on last year, should I allow them to fruit 
this year? 

Of the 17 grafts all 17 took! for a beginner that was great!

I have 2-3 that are budding this year and yet I am not sure they are strong 
enough this year to support the fruit? I would thin them to one fruit, but 
the diameter growth from last year was small. So I think I need to support 
them or not allow them to fruit yet. 

What do you think?

Jim
N. Idaho
finally like spring

>>> lonrom@hevanet.com 4/20/2006 2:35 PM >>>
Estimate two to three years, though I've seen grafts from mature trees 
bear in one year.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at 
http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association 
"Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
On Apr 20, 2006, at 1:35 PM, Hal Love wrote:

How quickly would these bear if you grafted cuttings from the seedlings 
onto a mature pear tree?