I know I need to prune some little branches out of the way. I cut the two biggest limbs off the tree when cleft grafting. I only have three small branches left and they will get cut back next spring when I ad more grafts. I left one third of the tree for nurse branches. I can open it up a little more when I get time. So your saying the pear will die. I thought people were growing pears on apple trees from what I have read. Then there were people grafting winter banana and then grafting pear onto that. I have five out of seven pears with leaves. Even if it doesn't take no big deal. It was fun trying.

Leftwood, After talking with Bors about these previous experiments at Sask grafting high I found out it applied only to using less than 2 year old pie cherry seedlings as scions. Apparently such seedlings when less than 2 years old grow out of sync. and often winter kill (when left growing that way) where as the more mature bigger trees work in sync. (stop growing soon enough). Using these young scions when grafting high to mature trees makes them change to act more mature... thus the act of grafting high saves tender seedling types from otherwise freezing to death. In light of these facts it now appears that maybe grafting high tender varieties on a hardy rootstock no longer applies the way I used to think because it applies to making seedlings cold hardier which in itself might have nothing to do with how hardy the rootstock your grafting to is... Notice I said might. So I'm going to give it a shot using sweet cherries high on the hardy Amur cherry anyways. Who knows. Grafting on Amur cherry is good anyways for vole prevention. Has anyone seen a moose eat Amur cherry? I havn't. Neither has Dr. Bors seen it. He's tasted them and says the reason must be that the wood is too tart. He's also pulled opened freezers with his hybrid pie cherries inside and says the whole freezer smells really great (ie. compelling to herbivores) as of sweet cherries.

So your seeds are not pure anything if they give plants with yellow fruits and plants with red fruits? (wink) And when referring to the Sarasota type you are talking about the Everglades one,which is a currant,and even more interesting,at least to me and others is that a person in S Florida thought his daugther had bought a plant of the Everglades one (red) and it turned out to have PINK fruits, a nice epidermis mutation. Ted sent me the fruits,I saved the seed and it really is quite unique as well as tasting great http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Ted%27s_Pink_Currant#tab=General_Info Tania goofed in sayin red but good to know that she is selling seeds for it for 2016. Hope that helps, Carolyn Right now I'm not sure how I can alter my above post with your new information, but I'll try.Now say not from the Galapagos,but from the Andes and yes, Solanum pimpinellifolium, the currant (red), is originally from the Andes either Ecudor or Peru and seeds for it are sold at lots of places. And yes,I was the one who introduced Sara's Galapagos and Amy named it and yes,it is a stable interspecies hybrid as Dr. Chatelet told me and he's at theTGRC in Davis, CA, and I loveSara's Galapagos just as much as I loveTed's pink one,

DS is a senior in high school-their class trip to NYC was scheduled for Friday. Hoping that the weather forecast was off base (as they aften are this time of year,) the decision was made to try to go. They left south-central PA for NYC at around 7:30 a.m. in a caravan of 7 tour busses. The plans were a sighseeing ride around the city from 11-12, lunch at South Market, afternoon at the Chelsea Piers sports complex, then a dinner cruise around the harbor and the Statue of Liberty, leave NYC around 8:00, be home around midnight. They arrived in NYC at a bit after noon, went right to the South Street Shops and and were told to eat lunch right away. At 2 pm, they were back on the busses, headed home again. at 6:30 he called home "We're still in NJ, they are stopping to let us grab a fast food meal." Rolled in at around 11:00 p.m. It took us 30 minutes to make the 8 minute drive to the high school to pick them up. Is it Spring yet?