Native Hunter
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Here is a pear and persimmon I did this year.
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Callery Pear Grafting
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KSQ2
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It’s averaging 10” a week since the buds broke!! Just crazy!
KSQ2
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I’ve been watching the Cleveland select pear in our front yard (I know, I know, I planted it years ago before I knew how worthless they are, and now Dawna won’t let me cut it down 
), for my timing on grafting. Today I realized it is quite a bit behind the callery pears out in the wild. How late is too late to graft? They aren’t fully leafed out, but they definitely are a little beyond initial bud break.
), for my timing on grafting. Today I realized it is quite a bit behind the callery pears out in the wild. How late is too late to graft? They aren’t fully leafed out, but they definitely are a little beyond initial bud break.
Native Hunter
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I think you would be okay to do it now.I’ve been watching the Cleveland select pear in our front yard (I know, I know, I planted it years ago before I knew how worthless they are, and now Dawna won’t let me cut it down
KSQ2
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Question for you Native, can any other fruit cutting besides pear be grafted onto a callery, Bradford, or Cleveland select tree? I think I know the answer, but I thought I’d ask anyway. I got a lot of different answers from an online search from no telling who. lol
Native Hunter
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My knowledge of doing that is only vicarious. I've always heard that quince is compatible with pear in grafting, but I have never tried it. I have also heard that mountain ash will sometimes take but the success rate is low.
KSQ2
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Interesting, I did a little digging and Scion’s can be bought on eBay. I’ve finally talked Dawna into putting grafts on the Cleveland select in the front yard. She is very intrigued about the possibility of a traditional pear like a kieffer or moonglow with the white flowers, and a quince with the pink flowers on the same tree. I’m intrigued by another possible fruit tree to harvest scions off of in the future. I’m guessing deer have no issues with eating the hybrid pear/apple fruit, and it looks like they hold onto the tree well into fall, from what I’ve read.
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Native Hunter
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I would let them grow so that the open space is filled in faster. You can slowly trim back any unwanted central leaders over the next few years and/or train them as limbs, which if desired can also eventually be eliminated. That would especially be my plan on one as large as that tree in the picture.
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