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| After reading several post on here about apple and pear grafting compatibility I attempted the recommended WB inter-stem and started randomly testing a few other varieties. Does anyone else have an interest in this area? |
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- Posted by Fascist_Nation USDA 9b, Sunset 13, (My Page) on Fri, Apr 18, 14 at 21:46
| wb = winter banana? |
This post was edited by Fascist_Nation on Fri, Apr 18, 14 at 21:49
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| I've grafted Fertility pear to my apple tree and have gotten fruit before the limbs died after a few years. Are you using Winter Banana to put pears on apple, or apple on pears? I grafted Winter Banana to my sister's pear tree and it has produced at least 3 crops of apples so far. |
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| GEAUX TIGERS |
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- Posted by Fascist_Nation USDA 9b, Sunset 13, (My Page) on Sun, Apr 20, 14 at 11:01
| a hit and run? |
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- Posted by scottfsmith 6B-7A-MD (My Page) on Sun, Apr 20, 14 at 14:17
| Looks like Benny left his computer unattended and an LSU fan attacked.. I'll be interested in the WB results, have heard about this but never seen much in the way of actual data. I'm not super interested because I never had the need - if I ever wanted apple and pear on the same tree I would just put two rootstocks in the same hole. Scott |
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- Posted by 2010ChampsBCS 7 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 20, 14 at 17:56
| Hi Murky/Scottfsmith. I have never been one to leave well enough alone. The burn inside me is to search for different methods. My backyard experiment are both with apples on pears and pears on apples. My thoughts were that if it works one way it should work the other way. When I first started I did not have any Winter Banana to do grafts so I randomly tried what I had. Some never grew but surprisingly others did well. I understand that there is the possibility of delayed incompatibility so the ones doing well now may very well decline. Most of what I have read on here is using Winter Banana or Fertility. One writer posted some very positive results with Winter Banana (wish I remembered the posters name). Other than the fun of the experiment surely there could be some useful results to come out, such as more disease resistance, drought tolerance, tree size, ETC. |
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- Posted by kevin-m 6 (Western NY) (sunrisesaloon@aol.com) on Tue, Jul 29, 14 at 23:00
| In the spring of 2012, I attempted to graft a Pear scion onto my apple tree using Winter Banana Apple as an inter stem. (All of he grafting i do is "Whip and Tongue" grafts wrapped in grafting tape. I then coat the wrapped union with grafting wax) The parent branch was a Winesap Apple branch with a grafted Winter Banana Apple scion from a few years before. This spring (2014) I attempted to graft this Apple / Pear union again using the same Winter Banana Apple inter stems. I had just enough branch on my Winter Banana branches to try this experiment one more time. This time around, I used "Sunrise Pear" scionwood. I have no idea why this experiment failed in 2012 and was a success in 2014. I do not know if it had to do with the pear variety used, or if it had to do with environmental circumstances. I will re-post in 2015 with an update. There are a few different treads on this subject so I will be re-posting on those threats also. Below are pictures taken on 07/27/2014. |
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- Posted by kevin-m 6 (Western NY) (sunrisesaloon@aol.com) on Tue, Jul 29, 14 at 23:01
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