The great value of topworking

[Native Hunter]

These pear pics illustrate the great value in grafting Callery pears.

First pic show a pear topworked the spring 2024. Three big pears.



Next pics is one done spring of 2023. Loaded.




Last on done spring of 2022.



From nothing to something.

 

[KSQ2]

These pear pics illustrate the great value in grafting Callery pears.

First pic show a pear topworked the spring 2024. Three big pears.

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Next pics is one done spring of 2023. Loaded.

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Last on done spring of 2022.
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From nothing to something.

Very impressive!

 

[M. R. Byrd]

Wow, what great success. I was helping my son with a hundred acres of timber in NE Kansas that had a lot of Callery pear. I flagged a few that I wanted to try grafting and killed the rest. Situation changed and he sold the land before I got to try grafting. Back home in SW Kansas( annual rainfall 17.50", 7.5 pH) we don't have the problem with the invasive Callery pear, so doubt that I will ever get to try grafting. I have no soft mast here now but would like to get some going. There is an old pear tree at a long ago abandoned farmstead that I would like to get a start from, via seed or grafting to some rootstock.

 

[cutman]

Great job. Very nice.

 

[KSQ2]

Well, I got a VERY unpleasant surprise at the Massey yesterday. I’m such an idiot; in all of my maintenance to stabilize the graft on my first callery pear attempt, I NEVER thought to reinforce the tape on the trunk.
Please learn from my mistake, a year of growth down the drain, and this year would have been amazing with all the rain we’ve received.

 

[KSQ2]

At least the callery trunk is still alive and well, so I’ll try again next spring.