I am planning on attending this year for 1st time. Do I need to bring some scion wood to attend?
I have a hard to find pear tree variety that I recently purchased and I need a 2nd variety grafted onto it, could I bring it with me and have someone custom graft it or guide me to graft onto it? Thank-you so much for your information!
HG
I had the same question my first year. The term "exchange" had me thinking I was intended to bring something.
No, there is no need to bring anything to give in exchange other than the entrance fee. You want to bring some plastic bags, some masking tape to write with and a pen, plus something to carry everything.
I bet you could pay the $5 fee to get another cultivar grafted onto your tree at the exchange. Otherwise I'd be happy to do it assuming the HOS is OK with that sort of thing. Once I've perused all of the materials and have listened to the espalier talk I'll probably hang out in the grafting room.
Is the tree in a pot? What variety is it?
Thank-you very much for the quick reply and INFO! The tree is bare-root, packed in damp wood shavings and plastic. It is a Packham-Triumph pear tree. I have a table listing the best pollinizer variety options according to bloom-time. I don't know if any of these will be available but: Spalding, B. de Guigno, Morettini, Conference, W. Doyenne, Bartlett, Ubileen, Stuttgarter, Warren, Potomac, Honeysweet are all good possibilities for grafting onto my tree (according to the chart from Raintree Nursery catalogue). I don't even know which of these grow well in Portland.
How long is it OK to keep the tree bare-root in the packing and plastic? I would have already planted it but I want to get it grafted first, since I don't yet know how to graft!
I will certainly take you up on the grafting help! I'll come find you after the speaker if I don't find any other grafting assistance! Thanks again!
HG,
I considered starting a ‘thread’ suggesting “just that!†Purchasing a ‘cheap’ tree (though yours was not) in a bag and hauling it to the exchange - picking out several different varieties - and paying to have us HOS grafters put them on. But I didn’t want to chance setting up a situation in which my fellow grafters weren’t comfortable… But I’m doing up a couple trees like that for a friend, and would be happy to do the same at our event.
Potted trees work, too! They’re just a bit heavier to work with. Makes me have to jump to the other side of the table, but I don’t charge extra for that 
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My suggestion is to choose a scion near the diameter of your pear trees limb/s; and since you’ve done your homework as far as a pollinator (and they should all do great in Portland!) – make a few notes as to which of those varieties (or “cultivarsâ€) you’d most like to have.
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