omicron1792
5 year old buck +
Great trees from them always. I just opened 10 DCO I ordered from them today, 14 nice trees in the box. I put them in root pouches and will plant them at the farm.
The Notorious Nativ Nurseries "Wild Deer Pear"
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omicron1792
5 year old buck +
I probably lost half the ornamentals and flowering shrubs at my home with same freeze. Everything was bloomed out by end of February and that hard early March freeze got a bunch.
Skye King
5 year old buck +
Humm, I just bought and received trees from Nativ nursery. What I bought and received was a mixture of persimmon, Mexican plum and black cherry. My plans are to plant the trees in a couple of food plots. Hopefully all works out and I will have some fruit trees for the deer.
Charles Clear
5 year old buck +
I am growing something a little similar. It's a late hanging Perry Pear called Butt. LOL I still giggle at the name.
Skye King
5 year old buck +
There are a bunch of white oaks in my woods already.
Skye King
5 year old buck +
Nativ nursery at West Point Mississippi has some Mexican plum to sell. I received my trees and am just waiting for the tree protectors that I ordered before planting.
Check them out:
Nativ Nurseries 6015 Hwy 45 Alt. South West Point, Mississippi 39773
BrushyPines
5 year old buck +
I have a few Mexican plums from NN and they have done well for me!
Skye King
5 year old buck +
Thats good to know. I am going to plant trees pretty soon.
b116757
5 year old buck +
Seems pretty early yet
BrushyPines
5 year old buck +
I'm sure it is for people up north, but in the deep south late fall early winter is a perfect time to plant trees!
blueKYstream
5 year old buck +
I have a number of The Wildlife Group Pears planted in 2019. Frost took most of my pears this year. A few pear trees from various sources made it through only to get Pear Rust. Dr. Deer and Becton are the first pears to fruit for me. The pears from Dr. Deer were a touch bigger than marbles. I imagine they'll be bigger next time. I still saw them hanging in January when they were mushy. Not a big sample size though. No fireblight to date. I've read reports on Facebook that Dr. Deer it's susceptible to early frosts. I'll need more time to evaluate that and any potential fireblight concerns. Becton has been my fastest grower and was the other first to fruit for me. So far, I'm pleased I have multiple of this one. Pears seems like it might be similar to Kieffer, but I'll need more time to evaluate.
Skye King
5 year old buck +
Me and the wifey spent today planting trees form NN. we planted Mexican plum, common persimmon and black cherry in the woods. Tomorrow we are going to finish planting the rest of the trees in the middle of a food plot.
Skye King
5 year old buck +
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I had the same experience with NN "Wild Deer Pear" trees. Acorn sized fruit on all if any. These were purchased in 2016 and I'm finally going to graft a different variety on them later this month. I also ordered crabapple trees at the same time as the pear from NN and those all died. They did replace them with additional shipping cost, but it was not a good experience overall with NN. I wouldn't purchase from them again.
BrushyPines
5 year old buck +
I had a few of their crabs to die as well, but it was only 2-3. I've had really good results with their plums (Chickasaw and Mexican), chestnuts and sawtooths. I plan to graft all pears and crabs. Was really disappointed with the pears compared to what they were advertising. Looking back, I shouldnt have bought seedling fruit trees. I didnt know any better at the time. Thanks to HT, I have learned A LOT! Thanks everyone!
"If you want the new trees to produce the same way as the parent tree, you'll have to graft them onto rootstock."
Not so. If you can get pear cuttings to root - and some root quite readily, while others do not - the resulting tree will be every bit the 'clone' of the original that a graft on seedling or clonally-propagated rootstock would be.
Granted, grafts on seedling pear (callery or communis) will *possibly* grow faster, early on, and *might* be longer lived, but if you think about it, the clonal rootstocks (OHxF for pears, EMLA, Geneva, etc., for apples) are, for all intents and purposes, a rooted cutting. No reason why a rooted cutting of a pear or apple, 'on its own roots' would be different - with regard to fruit characteristics - from that produced by a similar cutting grafted onto an appropriate rootstock.
Not so. If you can get pear cuttings to root - and some root quite readily, while others do not - the resulting tree will be every bit the 'clone' of the original that a graft on seedling or clonally-propagated rootstock would be.
Granted, grafts on seedling pear (callery or communis) will *possibly* grow faster, early on, and *might* be longer lived, but if you think about it, the clonal rootstocks (OHxF for pears, EMLA, Geneva, etc., for apples) are, for all intents and purposes, a rooted cutting. No reason why a rooted cutting of a pear or apple, 'on its own roots' would be different - with regard to fruit characteristics - from that produced by a similar cutting grafted onto an appropriate rootstock.
