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  • From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] seed preparation help
  • Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 08:31:39 -0600

At 08:48 PM 11/3/2002 -0500, you wrote:
As I pored over nursery catalogs lately, I noticed that one catalog claims that 'Warren' pear is self-pollinating. Is this true? Does it actually set good crops by itself? (I have a small yard).
Everything I've ever read here on the list indicates that Warren(and Magness) are pollen-sterile, and will not pollenize themselves, or any other pear, for that matter, and that their flowers are not very attractive to bees, etc., thus, it seems to be pretty difficult to get them to bear, even when appropriate pollenizers are nearby.
(A bit of semantics here, but the pollenators are the bees/insects, the trees themselves are pollenizers - unless you're talking about wind-pollenated species, like oaks & hickories)




Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY





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