Save money and grow your own rootstock by seed in your permaculture food forest
VIDEO: Pear trees in permaculture growing your own rootstock
Save money and grow your own rootstock by seed in your permaculture food forest
Save money and grow your own rootstock by seed in your permaculture food forest
You said next spring cut it off above the cleft graft. what do you mean? As I see it, a bradford tree grows with main trunk. to graft, you cut the main trunk and cleft graft. so next spring you cut the scion half way up from where you grafted? if that what you mean?
You can graft or chip bud with fruiting pears and Asian pears. Regular grafting, will be grafted to main truck and root stock is pruned back and new grafted part is the only part of tree that is allowed to grow. A bud or chip graft is placed 6 inch or so from the base of root stock in early fall, with the rest of the tree left alone. In spring as new growth starts, you cut off everything above the chip graft. All the growth will flow to chip graft from this point on.