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["Ed Fackler" <ed.fackler@gmail.com>]

Joe:

     Many years ago Jim Ozello was fairly convinced that Maxine (aka Starking Delicious) induced earlier fruiting, so you may want to consider it.

ed

On Feb 7, 2008 5:45 PM, Joe and Ellen Hecksel <jhecksel@voyager.net> wrote:

Donna &/or Kieran wrote:
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>     I'm planning on ordering various blight resistant pears from
> Corvallis.  Calleryana rootstocks grow great here, but they get so big.
> What do you all know about the use of dwarfing interstems for pears?

http://www.actahort.org/members/showpdf?booknrarnr=658_28

Conference would be my first choice.  It would be interesting to look at
Seckel as an interstem...but there is no data.

 I
> see that they have OHXF 34, 51, 87 and 333.  They say they are
> compatible with both communis and calleryana.  Has there been much done
> with these as dwarfing interstems?  Are there known problems with such
> trees?  I could just use Magness, Maxine, or Warren as interstems on
> quince, but have been told that quince is as susceptible to apple borers
> as apple is.  This would be defeating part of my purpose in switching to
> pears, which is to avoid tree losses to those *&^#+*  borers.
>     Please advise me before I do something stupid!  Thanks.  Donna
>
>
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