Subject: [NAFEX] What's (problematically) compatible with pear?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:37:36 -0600
Lon said: "Medlar, quince, Sorbus, Amelanchier, loquat are all graft
compatible
with pear."
-Lon Rombough
Lon,
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.