Grafting Apple or Pear onto Hawthorn

[jocundi]

I have several Hawthorn and Service Berry trees at the property, but no luck with fruit trees. Has anyone seen success grafting apple or pear onto wild roots?

[khoomeizhi]

not onto those specifically. i've got a friend who's been doing a lot of experimenting with grafting pears and pear crosses onto aronia - which seems to be a good (though dwarfing) rootstock...and if you've got serviceberries, you can probably grow aronia...

[jocundi]

I have lots of Aronia too! I will try! Do you know of the actual success rate?

I turned to Hawthorn because some of the root stock that survived from apple trees I planted had thorns so I checked and Family, Subfamily, Tribe and Subtribe are the same with apple. But Hawthorn and and Serviceberry are tall bushes/trees whereas Aronia is more of a true bush.

[jannel]

In Finland at least one pomology enthousiast has succesfully grafted pear in to rowan, Sorbus aucuparia, but not in hawthorn. I'd think there could be a chance.

[nicollas]

Pears graft onto hawtorn. To graft apples you may need to use an interstem like winter banana apple