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These are Kieffer, Moonglow and Deer pears. Looking for best case of survivability and fruit producing.

No, but do I leave both grafts or eventually trim down to one? These pics are from last year. They are pears too.

I recently came across this article suggesting that crisscrossing the grafts is the best option. I'm already in year 3, so is this even still doable at this point? I'm concerned about breaking the grafts at this point. https://extension.psu.edu/apple-top-working-managing-the-new-grafts

Good to hear. I sure hope it looks better before archery season starts in a few weeks.

This is a pic 12 days after broadcasting the grains. The clover was broadcasted two weeks before that. The plot just never took off like I thought it would, even with ample rain in the last 12 days. Disappointed.

Gotcha. My sister lives in Mechanicsburg. I'm in Somerset, camp is in SE Somerset County. If it hadn't been such a dry summer, I'd have tried using more oats. What time of year do you usually plant your oats?

I did use seed oats. From my research, rye has a better chance of germination than oats when broadcasted. We'll see what happens. What part of PA are you from?

After two weeks, only one of the two plots has clover that has sprouted. We were to get rain in the few days after planting and hardly any came. Its been such a dry summer here in PA. Pretty disappointing. We broadcasted 75/25 Rye/Oat blend last night with rain in the forecast again for the...

I bought some cheap velcro straps I found on amazon for connecting to the stakes. As far as my grafts that I lost, I thoroughly inspected the tree on Saturday as even the limb sprouts below the graft looked rough. I had a corrugated drain pipe around the base to prevent girdling. I removed...

Appreciate all of your help. I've learned so much from this forum.

Thanks. What do you use to attach the upper part of the graft to the piece of bamboo?

Do you put your bracing directly against or right behind the grafts?

Excuse my ignorance, but Is the gap you're referring to the gap between the grafts?

Unfortunately one of my trees lost both of its grafts. They both snapped from the hurricane Debby winds we got I'm thinking. These grafts were the slowest to grow and they were also the thickest scion wood I used, so maybe they didn't adhere as well from the get go. I will give it another go...

I don't feel confident about germination given that the cultipacker didn't do much to the ground other than knock the grass down, but time will tell.