A fruit tree question...

Clyde · 09-14-2007, 04:32 PM

Can you produce a growable fruit tree from a cutting? Obviously I have very little knowledge about this yet I do know that you can do this with some plants.

WAID · 09-14-2007, 04:51 PM

Yes and no. Depends on if the cutting is from a type that needs to be grafted onto a rootstock to be productive or not. I guess technically yes either way it just depends on how much time and effort you want to put into it.

Clyde · 09-14-2007, 05:57 PM

So, no matter what, you will need to graft?

Maybe a little more info is needed. My mother has a very rare Chinese Pear tree. I was grafted with 2 different types of Asian pears. I really want to start on of my own but if I do it from the seed I will only get that type of pear. But then again...I am guessing that even if I can get it to grow from a cutting, that it will also produce a single type of pear...

fishkisser · 09-14-2007, 06:03 PM

The only way I know how to do it is by using the seeds wich may have been hybridized or by grafting ... you could always experiment come spring with some new growth and a package of rootone(rooting stimulant)B-1 will help with transplant shock ... Barney:smile:The only way to get your Moms tree is to buy one already grafted or do it yourself...

STGRule · 09-14-2007, 08:52 PM

Buy a good disease resistant root stock and graft on a branch of each of the pear types off the tree. You will be replicating the tree, not cloning it.

Hare's Ear · 09-14-2007, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by STGRule

Buy a good disease resistant root stock and graft on a branch of each of the pear types off the tree. You will be replicating the tree, not cloning it.

STGRule is exactly correct. You can try to root the cutting. If successful, the fruit will be the same as the tree that the cutting came from. The only problem is that may not get a vigorous root system from the cutting. You will probably have better success if you graft the cutting onto rootstock. Almost all apple and pear trees that you can buy are cuttings grafted onto rootstock.

Clyde · 09-15-2007, 08:11 AM

Great information...thank you! Didn't even realize you could buy a generic root stock.

Rustyoar · 09-15-2007, 09:24 AM

You guys keep saying grafting but the process we use is called budding. The best way to obtain that same tree is to buy a Pyrus communis rootstock/seedling and take a scion from your moms tree and bud it.

We plant roughly 450,000 in the spring and then bud them starting in August we just finished up.The reason we use a communis root is to obtain the traits we desire in the tree such as cold hardiness, capatabality with the scion, size etc. I would avoid trying to propagate it by cutting your would be wasting your time IMO.

Your other option which the above post are talking about is called grafting either usually done in the winter/early spring monts prior to bud break. However the only good way to do this is to buy a bare root pear plant it, go cut the scion from your moms tree and graft it.

Let me kow if you need any other info both processes are very hard to explain on the internet and many years of tricks have been added to find success.

Jaws · 09-15-2007, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Rustyoar

You guys keep saying grafting but the process we use is called budding. The best way to obtain that same tree is to buy a Pyrus communis rootstock/seedling and take a scion from your moms tree and bud it.

We plant roughly 450,000 in the spring and then bud them starting in August we just finished up.The reason we use a communis root is to obtain the traits we desire in the tree such as cold hardiness, capatabality with the scion, size etc. I would avoid trying to propagate it by cutting your would be wasting your time IMO.

Your other option which the above post are talking about is called grafting either usually done in the winter/early spring monts prior to bud break. However the only good way to do this is to buy a bare root pear plant it, go cut the scion from your moms tree and graft it.

Let me kow if you need any other info both processes are very hard to explain on the internet and many years of tricks have been added to find success.

Actually i think it's called chip budding. Google it and you will find lots of info. Not a lot of options for pear root stock but you should find something. Good luck.