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Reproducing old tree varieties
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Why not just take cuttings ? I assume you can grow pear from cuttings. Not sure on the others
Cuttings just requires taking endings of branchs and setting it on soil, correct?
The pear tree is on the top of the priority list.
No not really. Depending on type of tree. Can look at softwood or hardwood cuttings. Depending on climate and soil type.
If the trees gas new growth then that's a good place to start. Season also impacts cuttings.
They are kinda hit or miss. But they are generally the easiest to work with and will be true to parent. As long as branch is above graft line. Don't take cuttings from the bottom of trunk.
So it is essentially taking away some snips from the endings of last year fruiting branches, stick it in soil and hope for the best.
I'll try that.
Hardwood or softwood? Isn't that usually a sorting system for lumber?
I live in a mountain area, near 800 meters altitude, so cold and wet winters but hot and dry summers. The area is still considered volcanic origin but so old it doesn't really matters anymore. I think I need to have soil tested for acurate profilling, when it is properly clean.
Pretty much. Use rooting hormone for better results.
You can't really go wrong. Just experiment and find what soil the tree likes and it's preferred climate.
Just means the age of the shoot. If it's established it would be hard whereas new growth is green and soft. Both have pros and cons.
I'm currently playing around with grape vine cuttings. Hardwoods seem harder to get going but do better in the long run.
The pear tree is established so it should react well to climate and soil.
I'm going to risk and take a few cuttings as soon as possible, take a few shovels of soil from around the tree, fill some pots and stick the cuttings there.
I have a patio where I can keep the plants more closely watched and tended.
Check out YouTube vids how to do it. Take your time.
Can always ask an expert how to do it
I have talked with a few so-called experts but the focus is always on why my interest on such old trees, when I have much more commercially viable varieties readily available, and/or the work and time invested is not economically worthy of the effort.
It's a die hard mentality of turning a profit when my concern is conservation.
Fair enough. Don't see why it would make a difference. If they just use the same techniques. Would be same process. Can ask them to show you the profitable variety and then just use the same for any other tree
They want me to chuck aside my trees to buy from them.
Don't sound like experts then. More salesman.
Once you have a single tree you have unlimited trees. Can take cuttings for life.
That's the experts I have available, unfortunately. Amateur gardeners no longer worry developing the skills others would as it has become simpler to just buy trees from nurseries. The professionals become formatted.
True but hobbyist would