Here are a couple photos I snapped this morning of the one-year grafts, just as a visual reference.

John

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By the way, I took a closer look at how these medlar cultivars did on the two different rootstocks I used. Overall, the ones grafted onto Crataegus crus-galli produced a more vigorous tree than the ones on C. monogyna.

If anyone is looking to graft their own medlars, I'd suggest going with C. crus-galli. I purchased mine from Lawyer Nursery.

John

I would probably wait until next year on those at this point .. they aren't very big. Tell us how you like them when they fruit. I didn't like my Breda Giant or Royal a whole lot but am making one last attempt to like medlars with the Puciu Big.

Scott

Scott:

Thanks for the advice. I'll hold off until next Winter.

John

Wow! that's a lot of Medlars ! what are you planing with these? sell these perhaps? I know nothing about these plants /trees so am very curious.

I have only ever pruned one medlar and that is my Large Russian. It doesn't really need any pruning at all but it is in a space which is really too small for it. The main thing I have noticed is that if you cut off a shoot the new shoot will break from a bud at a large angle from the original, often almost at right angles to the previous direction of growth. The result is that the branches become very zigzag in appearance. It is not at all a neat looking orchard tree, more of a gnarled weird specimen. So I would put off pruning them at all if possible. But that's only a hunch based on a survey of one tree.

flora_uk: I just figured the tree I got from One Green World was trained to look like that. It never dawned on me that it looked gnarled naturally! The branches do come off at large angles!

John: Where did you get your scion from?

Flora:

Thanks for the feedback. I'm just going to let them grow out on their own this year and see if they begin to branch. They very well will do just fine without any pruning. I'll post an update about their progress at the end of the growing season.

MileHighGirl:

I got all of my scionwood from the Medlar collection that is part of the Nat'l Clonal Germplasm Repository in Corvallis, OR. I've posted a link to it below.

John

Here is a link that might be useful: Medlar Collection of the NCGR