Hi all,


I want to ask if anyone on the club has any extensive
experience with pear trees and how they are
propagated. I am about to propagate my pear tree and I
would like to know what would be the best choice to
propagate a stump about 2-3 inches at the bast of the
tree. Thank You


Maybe I'm being dense here, but I'm not sure what you mean by
"propagate a stump."

That's probably too large to chop off and make a cutting out of
it.

Pears, like other members of the rose family, propagate OK via
air layer, so if you're wanting a shorter stump, you could do an
air layer (in the spring). Easiest way, I suspect would be to do
the bark peel (or wire) as low as possible, then pile a soil
sphagnum mix around it. Or you can do the standard, if you want
the layer farther up the trunk.

I have done all mine by seed -- believe it or not. Pears grow
rapidly and as everyone knows I like small trees. Many of mine
are actual transplanted seedlings from the pears on my driveway
trees that the squirrels miss.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only to the
white man was nature a wilderness -- Luther Standing Bear
(Ogallala Sioux Chief)

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