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These are my pears...

c'mon paddles, can you give us a bit more info. shaping up to be a nice group though, congratulations.

Oh, gee, miyagiman, what could I say about these trees.... hmmm, provanence... you gave them to me 18mths ago??? LOL

One of my favorite groups.... These have been together as a group for one month, prior to that I had them in the ground since I bought them home...

Hi all, this pear group, or as it is now known, 3 pears and a quince... is still going, and I am thinking about doing an overhaul this winter... maybe... so I have several options.. I can remove the quince, and leave it as a 3 tree group, I can add another quince, and leave it as a mixed group, I can always airlayer off the top of the main tree, to gain another pear... an option to be considered, I do think that that main pear is too straight, and possibly an air layer might be a good idea there... hmmm, suggestions??

we can always wander down to the pear digging spot and see if there are any more lonely pear trees just laying about.

miyagiman wrote: we can always wander down to the pear digging spot and see if there are any more lonely pear trees just laying about.

Yes... we could do that... I guess a question that arises still tho.. is what to do with the quince...

Hmmm, do you know anyone who might have room to put it in the ground for a year or ten...

what about we get you a better quince as well, and then this orphan could go to another orphanage. room and board could be arranged though.

miyagiman wrote: what about we get you a better quince as well, and then this orphan could go to another orphanage. room and board could be arranged though.

what? more trees?? (remember groups only count as one tree )

Hmmm, just when I'd decided to sell this group on.... QV praises it as a good group, and points out that my trees are getting better and better... what do you do with a group that "HE" praises....

Wow paddles, I had never thought of doing an "edible group Bonsai" I know traditionally a group is usually one tree type, but imagine doing a 'fruit salad group' eg 1 pear, 1 apple, 1 peach, 1 apricot, 1 pomegranate, 1 Mulberry . Traditions are there to reclaim and twist into new traditions....oh shoot just had a thought, how about a multi-graft bonsai fruit tree or multi-graft citrus tree group?.

the quince was a slipup.. it was thought to be a pear... (but it's grown...) lots of people do grafts... ie crab apple onto an apple trunk... I have an apricot here.. maybe I should do a fruit group... a mini orchard group???

Thats what I thought of whilst I was typing my last post to you, I just had another thought whilst I was outside smoking my cigar and sipping a whiskey, do many vines get bonsai eg Grape, Passionfruit, Kiwi Fruit, etc

passionfruit and kiwi would have too large a leaf.. grape does get done

Many fruit trees get too large a leaf

paddles wrote:.. what do you do with a group that "HE" praises....

You keep it Paddles..for the rest of your natural born life.

my pears today....