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[Louis Pittman <lpittman@murraystate.edu>]

Back around 2000/2001, I grafted a couple of pears onto native cockspur
hawthorn (C.crus-galli).
Ubileen, lived at least 5-6 years, and was very dwarfed, only growing to
about 4-5 ft, before it was removed to make room for my wife's tennis
court.
An unidentified southern pear variety, grafted at the same time, is still
alive today; is perhaps 8 ft tall, very columnar with minimal side
branching, and has produced fruit - though only a couple.

Lucky


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:55 PM, R F Hollaus <hollaus@comcast.net> wrote:

>  >I've scoured the web and elsewhere looking for info about
>  >hawthorn as a pear rootstock and have found little beyond
>  >casual mention that it can work.
>
> Devin,
>
> It's always an interesting subject isn't it. :)
>
> It has been observed before under pear in Oregon some time ago
> so it seems possible to have lasting effects as I have seen
> results using the 'old home' as the interstem for trees about
> 25 years old still.
>
> See:
> http://horticulture.oregonstate.edu/system/files/ond100203a.pdf
>
> Another example of pear with other things:
> http://root2fruit.org/pdf/PEARwhitepaper.pdf
>
> This last article in table 1 estimates takes with hawthorne to
> pear as poor to good so good luck and maybe in ten years you
> can copy back to us some day how it all went.
>
> Rupert.
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