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  • From: tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grafting Pears
  • Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 08:38:40 -0800 (PST)

Confirming much of what's been posted: Nova is slow to harden off & go
dormant in
autumn, Summercrisp has the most leaf disease of a handful of cultivars,
Luscious is
very tastey and keeps better than most, and I see apparent precosity of
topwork onto
mature trees.

Note Luscious does bear too heavily, like the literature warns, and crops
must be
thinned else branches will break.

Questions: What comparisons are there for pear precosity on different
rootstocks--
especially the hardier rootstocks? Is anyone else seeing reduced quality of
the
pears which develope on the grafted topwork on mature trees?

tc, s.WI a 1/2 or full zone warmer than Fruth


--- Jim Fruth <> wrote:

> 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]
>
>



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