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As long as the scion wood is dormant, you can graft well into July here in Minnesota. I've grafted into August and they take well but aren't hardened up enough for winter so usually don't make it. Cut plenty of scion wood in March, keep it moist in a zip lock bag in the fridge.

As said above, the top trimmings make excellent scion wood! I have tried side-by-side comparisons of topped trees vs leaving the trees full height. Withing 2 years the topped tree has passed the full height tree. Its a good time to do some shaping of the tree too. The truck grows thicker on the...

It looks good to me. Possibly next year trim the vertical branches. My experience is top worked trees want to develop a new tree with each graft so they do require pruning. Also, if you don't have a pollinator nearby it works great to add a branch of another variety. Or let one natural branch...

About the middle to end of August. Luscious is a very sweet and reasonably medium/large pear, my old Luscious tree blew over in a windstorm a few years ago. I have new ones coming up but not producing yet. If all goes as planned this year I should have lots of Ure and at least some Nova. I'm...

I am in Central MN. 70 miles NW of St Cloud. I've grown pears for years. Have Ure, Kiefer, Douglas, Luscious, and Nova. The ussurian rootstock is the best/hardiest. I find pears easy to graft compared to apple. I have a big old Ure with ussurian rootstock that keeps pushing shoots up from the...