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  • From: Charles Paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Red skinned or red fleshed pears?
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:43:07 -0400

The two growers in Pennsylvania who tried most of the red-skinned pears
available then in the late 1980's considered them all worthless. Wish I
could find the reference.
Charlie Paradise


tanis grif wrote:

> I recently did a little reading on the red sports, and got the idea they
> might be
> easier to grow than the regular, because of this lower vigor. (Slightly
> more
> dwarfed, easier branch training, possibly better fireblight resistance,
> etc.) Did I
> make the correct assumption? Or do they have other problems which would
> make the
> show-stopping visuals not worth the bother?
>
> --- "Lon J. Rombough" <> wrote:
>
> > FWIW, in most red skinned sports of green pears the leaves are red or
> > reddish and
> seem to be less efficient than pure green ones, making the trees slower
> growing and
> less well branched, in many cases.
>
> >
> > On Jan 17, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Ray Kaminski wrote:
> >
> > ... A branch of red pears among green ones is a real show stopper if you
> > have
> ever have seen one. One I am interested in is Red Rogue as I read that it
> is
> suppose to be a good keeper. I have Birne Red (red fleshed) but it also
> have not
> produced yet. Thanks-Ray








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