Flower buds growing on callery pear tree cuttings?
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Comments (4)Okay you guys--I'll keep the buds just as they are. That graft was from a very old (yellow pear tree over 60 years) and it's still making fruit. Looks like it's going down hill now. Many thanks Lou NE., PA...See MoreFlower buds swelling on callery pear tree cuttings?
Comments (3)I would pinch them off the flowers and allow whatever energy left from the cutting to go toward rooting. Cross your finger and hope the cutting will root before all the store energy used up and the cutting dry up and die. Tony...See Morewhy do some callery pear trees have the small fruit and some dont
Comments (13)You might want to look at this article http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/gagarden/msg041309538748.html A callery pear for example could be top grafted over to another variety of large pear which is what I would do. It is undesirable for them to make fruit aka produce seed because they are known to be invasive. They are very useful as a root stock in my location. Callery pears will pollinate many varieties of pears but I'm not sure if it will pollinate your neighbors. If It does act as a pollinator remember the neighbors tree only will get the larger fruit. Callery pear tree fruit will always be small . The next generation of callery seeds might make larger fruited unique varieties when the trees were grown from seed as shown in the picture above. Those trees in the above picture were not intentionally grown but rather grew by accident on a farm in my area. Some day work may be done to use callery to breed better pears. In the late 1800's the kieffer pear was grown from a cross between the sand pear and European pear so natural crosses do happen across species. Garber is another sand pear hybrid highly resistant to fire blight. Hybrid pears are fascinating because of their disease resistance. This post was edited by ClarkinKS on Fri, Jan 2, 15 at 0:07...See MoreAre these roots that are forming on a callery pear cutting in water?
Comments (6)The white bumps are expanded lenticels...which are often a response of a cutting sitting in water for a time. Their presence does not guarantee that the cuttings are rooting. But it's not necessarily a bad sign either....See Morefloral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
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