Kenneth Boyd

David, no I haven't but would like to know more about grafting. What can you tell me?
I have a cherry tree stump in my orchard row, maybe graft something off of it?

That's good to know. This is almost 150ft from my mini-orchard. I have a cherry stump in my.orchard, conveniently in a row, right in a perfect.spot to grow a tree. I can dry out the stump and later plant a tree when the stump is totally dead in a couple of years.
I was thinking a new cherry would sprout up and I'd get a free tree. Had one sprout last year, but a windstorm broke it at it's base

No leaves to take a picture of. Maybe in a month or so.
It's not in a good spot, shaded by huge pine trees.
I might want to let the stump die.

Last year, I cut down two pear trees that were intwined. One was Bartlet, the other sugar (we believe).
Now I have two stalks growing up out of one of the two stumps. It has thorns at the end of the branches. The previous trees didn't have thorns.
I am hoping that a new pear tree would grow in it's place to add to my orchard.
Is this a "rootsprout?" I'm hoping to do the same with a cherry tree stump.
If it is a pear, how long will thorns be on it? When can I expect fruit? Could it be another breed of pear/fruit? I'm pretty new to the orchard growth area.