Turning a TRASH tree into a FRUIT tree! SEE RESULTS!

Today we show how we bark grafted over a dozen varieties of pear onto a worthless Bradford pear tree - with amazing results!

Today we use bark grafting on Bradford pear trees to add on multiple varieties of pear. Join David The Good and Randall White from @FlomatonFamous as they graft pear trees. And we see the two-month results of grafting!

[alaskansummertime]

You are supposed to say 'this one weird trick' to maximize the algorithm.

[FlomatonFamous]

Awesome! Thank you again David. I had a lot of fun doing all of the grafting! Glad to see that it wasn't a complete failure lol.

[StubbsMillingCo.]

I must conquer every Bradford Pear in I thought Clemson giving fruit/nut trees in return for eliminating your Bradford Pears was great. This is what Johnny Apple seed wished he was… DAVID THE GOOD!!!💯

[Morganistas]

Would love to see an update on this project! Randal mentioned buying scions online today at Scrubfest and I think I'm ready to do a little chainsaw problem-solving on a huge unproductive pear in my backyard and give it new life. It was a great day with you all!

[davidhunt]

Several years ago I Googled "can you graft fruiting pear onto Bradford pear?" and I found plenty of online discussions ridiculing the idea. Keyboard experts. I now have about 150 baby pears growing on a tree I grafted onto a Bradford stump, and I have about 20 other pear trees I've grafted, all onto volunteer bradford/callery pear trees. It's satisfying to turn weeds into fruit trees, and it's great to get free rootstock.

[LavenderSkyla]

You know it's spring when you binge all the David the good content you can while trying to keep chickens out of the garden

[hughbrackett]

Got it. I put my finger behind the stick so that the final cut takes a layer of skin. After seven cuts I switch to another finger. After grafting, wrap injured fingers in Comfrey leaves (optionally pre-chewed.)

[glassbackdiy]

Grafting with ther bible, great lesson! btw 2/100 Moringa have showed willingness to join the cool temperate party, mission on ;)

[jeremytrusty]

Thank you 💡 can not allocate the funds for all the fruit trees I would like to grow. Thinking of just growing from seed to get the root stock and then graft the good stuff next year. Lord willing.

[breaking_bear]

David the Good is my favorite YouTuber. I finished reading Grow or Die and am almost done reading Compost Everything.

[DeanFamilyAcres]

Been enjoying @Flowmatonfamous videos a lot lately! Thanks for collaborating!

[b_uppy]

Love your shirt.
Love this topic.
We have a lot of native bitter cherries and crabapples. Grafting is a great way to utilize what you've got.

I used sheep to manage suckers and weeds in the orchard.

[joesqudy]

You’ll have to give us updates to you’re beautiful pear tree. I loved how you quoted psalms 1, so beautiful and fitting. Remember to pray over your tree, I always pray for a God harvest over my gardens every year. God bless.
❌⭕️🙏🏽♥️

[PlantObsessed]

Bradford pears are worse than weeds. Darn things are the primary source of spring allergens where I live. I'm glad you made it a good tree 😊

[Florida_Bullfrog]

Amazing way to graft. I’m going to try it next winter with some wild persimmon trunks and fuji branches.

[omeshsingh]

As a kid when I visited my granny we harvested "inaccessible" mangoes with a bamboo stick that had a hook attached at the end, and we caught the fruit them with a bamboo stick with a net attached on the end.

[jwrightgardening]

I grafted some plums and apples for the first time last spring at a workshop. When I got home and after I put my new trees in the ground, I took all the little leftover bits from the apples and grafted them all to a vigorous but non-fruiting apple seedling I grew from seed that is about six years old. Every single graft I stuck on that seedling is growing and looking huge and healthy a year later. I'm excited because a couple of the little trees I grafted on rootstock did not make it through the year but the rootstock is growing so I have material on my big tree to try again with.

[comfortablynumb]

What a great idea! I'd love to learn to graft and make trees with lots of varieties of fruit. I remember reading about one at a university with over 40 varieties of stone fruits. That's very appealing to me.

[joshaklese]

I don't know what cracks me up more, the Go Outside T-shirt or the the ominus drums right before a random guy with a chainsaw.

[Roescoe]

4:41 I wasn't sure about grafting, but that little jingle convinced me.