Various varieties of the service pear now have a permanent place in the range of tree nurseries. However, if there are mother plants in your own garden or at the neighbors', you can also grow new service pear trees yourself.
Propagation from seed is possible, albeit a bit slow
Grow the pear from seed
You need a little patience to grow the pear from seeds, as the seedlings initially grow relatively slowly. With regard to the seeds, it is important to realize that the seeds of a service pear can only germinate after a cold period. Even seeds collected for cultivation on the windowsill or in pots must first be stratified in the freezer or outdoors in wintry outside temperatures. Then the seeds are sown in ordinary seed soil and kept evenly moist.
Root pear cuttings
While some plants can only be grown from woody cuttings, things are a little different with the service pear. Their cuttings should be cut as short as possible and from the fresh shoots in the spring. It would be optimal to cut the cuttings in May, this can of course be combined with a topiary that is planned anyway. Immediately after cutting, the approximately 5 to 15 cm long cuttings are placed in potting soil and kept evenly moist in a shady to partially shaded location. Since pear cuttings are not easy to successfully root, the use of special rooting hormones may be appropriate.
Form sinkers of the service pear
An alternative to propagating cuttings is the formation of sinkers for the service pear. It is best to follow the following steps:
- choose a branch close to the ground that is long enough
- carefully bend the shoot towards the ground and secure it with a stone or similar. complain
- Pile up some soil over the branch where it touches the ground
After the roots have formed, the sinker can be separated from the mother plant with sharp pruning shears.
tips
In the case of the service pear, it is not uncommon for several small stems to grow out of the ground close together. Sometimes there is an opportunity to carefully cut off one of these stems with a suitably sharp garden spade and transplant it. Note that young plants grown from grafted Serviceberry plant material will not necessarily have the same characteristics as the mother plant. The grafting of certain varieties of the pear takes place partly on rowan berry seedlings, which are used as a rootstock.