Jerry Bell

Thanks for the information.  It makes perfect sense.

I have a few fruit trees I want to experiment with this year. doing both air layering and grafting.  It's been so warm here that my nectarine tree is in full bloom, so I am expecting to lose that its crop for the second year in a row.

50 miles east of Dallas Texas.

Hello all!  just registered to the site and WOW there's a lot of good information here.  
So here's my question.
If I successfully air layer a branch from a 10-year-old pear tree, will my new tree think it's ten years old, and will start producing fruit next year?  Could have used Apple, Peach, Plum, etc.

Thanks
~Jerry