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  • From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] what's compatible with pear?
  • Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:29:25 -0600

At 09:16 AM 1/12/2007, Donna wrote:
 I have a couple of volunteer pears in places where I wouldn't mind to have them provided they weren't dropping pears in yellow jacket season.  I'd been thinking that I'd have to choose and graft a really really early variety, or a really really late one.  Then it dawned on me that I might graft something else altogether... one of those relatives that normally a person would graft pear onto to dwarf it.  Hawthorn is one, but is aronia closely enough related to work?  Anything else you can think of?    Donna

Quince.
I had a piece of 'Aromatnaya' quince fostered onto my Clapp's Favorite pear (I'd run out of hawthorn seedlings), and it did OK for a couple of years - until fireblight finally killed the Clapps back to the rootstock.
Don't know how the mayhaws would do on pear.

LLP


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