To: Devin Smith <dvidedevo@yahoo.com>, nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [nafex] Crataegus as rootstock
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:55:39 +0000 (UTC)
>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.
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.