ohxf87 pear rootstock, you can propagate from softwood

ohxf87 pear rootstock, you can propagate from softwood. in fact it doesn't stool very well, pear doesn't have the same adventitious buds along the root crown like apple. what this means is, if you chop these off and expect shoots you can hill up like the way an apple stoolbed works, well it doesn't. but the softwood can root so it has some promise, pear roostocks have been in short supply at our nursery, growing out ussurian seedlings can be challenging, and slow. stooling so far no luck, and really all of the clonal stocks in Canada are both expensive, hard to source, and not cold hardy. ohxf87 can work if the graft is low, so we're going to try it. maybe some cotoneaster as well.