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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

Richard,
   I hear you saying that you need mature scionwood to get pear fruit 
earlier.  Not so here!  A few years ago, I took scionwood from my six pear 
varieties and grafted them onto a neighbor's Parker Pear.  Starting the 
following year and for every year thereafter, he's been enjoying a bountiful 
harvest while my trees just sit there wondering if they ever want to bear. 
I'm jealous.
   BTW, regarding dividing zones into 'a' and 'b' climate zones, I was 
under the impression that 'a' is adjacent to the next warmer , numbered, 
zone and 'b' is adjacent to the next colder, numbered, zone.  You have it 
the other way around:  "Mine are in zone 4a/3b (tending toward
the former)."  Now I'm confused; which is it?

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
www.bberryfarm.com
(218)568-8483 [Store]
(218)831-7018 [My Cell]


I plan to do a bit more branch-grafting to see whether I can
get something else to produce quickly. I suppose having a mature scion is
part of the trick.

So I live in hope!

Richard