Friday, March 29, 2019

[nafex] Seckle or Calleryanna?

I was visiting a friend of mine today. She showed me her Seckle (Seckel)
on calleryana rootstock. The tree was going up like a pine, and had lots
of small flowers clustered very tightly. It looked in fact exactly like
the flowering pear across the street (where all you can see this time of
year is white...) I am wondering if somehow the roostock sprouted up and
now the tree is the rootsock. I have a bunch of pear trees, and though
there is a lot of variation in flower density, I don't have any that
have anywhere near the density of small flowers that the flowering pears
have. (I used to think I had a seckle, then I realized it was
mis-labeled, though it makes fine fruit....)

So, if this tree she has is really callery, I can wack it off and graft
it into something edible. But can anybody tell me, given the limited
information presented here, does a real seckle have a bloom density
anywhere near a flowering pear?

Thanks,

Alexis

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