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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] What's (problematically) compatible with pear?
  • Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:19:19 -0800

Obviously there is variation in the success of the graft. Mileage will vary by combination of species and varieties within species on any plant.
-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 Jan 13, 2007, at 6:37 AM, Jim Fruth wrote:

Lon said: "Medlar, quince, Sorbus, Amelanchier, loquat are all graft
compatible
with pear."
-Lon Rombough



There is an unobvious problem connected with off-species grafts. A
visitor to the walnut orchards in California can see peculiar looking trees,
walnut trees whose bottom portion of the bole is a smaller diameter than the
upper portion. Eventually those trees strangle themselves. I have a
similar thing happening in my orchard where I grafted a fast growing plum
onto a slow growing rootstock. These trees of mine need to be held upright
with crane-like supports or they either topple over in the wind or just
outright break off. In comparison, grafting a pear onto an Amelanchier or
Loquat, etc. would likely have a similar result.



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