Graft Kieffer onto Bradford and you have a Kieffer pear tree, (if you cut everything else back and just allow the Kieffer scion to grow out).

Why do you need Keiffer roots? Callery pear(Bradford) is what is used in the South.

Keiffer has big grit and is for canning. My Grandfather had one.

In other words the Bradford pear roots are fine, if one simply lets the tree grow on them? If this is so, then this should be a very easy project! I have access to lots of Bradford peaer seedlings. Thanks also for the spelling correction on Keiffer.

George

Yes...your good to go if you take that route. I actually use Bradford pears to cross pollinate my Seckel so it sets fruit (no other flowering pears in the yard this past spring).

I thought seckel was self fertile