The Forestry Forum

I like the bradford pear flowering trees but they fall apart when they get around 15 years old.
If i take a scion from the tree and graft it to OHxF 333 root stock will that make it stay smaller and therefore less prone to breakage?

Graft failure with age is a fairly common problem. I am not familiar with that rootstock, but sometimes a different rootstock will work better long term.

The real solution is to root the scion (on its own roots). Then there is no graft union to fail. This is a growing trend in orchard trees.