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Bob,

Every year on pears and apples I have blossoms that open long after petal fall for most of the tree.  This year was no different, three days ago I saw about 20 open blossom clusters on Horse and Mutsu when both trees have ping-pong ball size fruit - I pinched all of them out because in past years I found they set no fruit or resulted in very small fruit.  Anyone know why these blossoms break so late?

Jim Nottke  z7 NC

-----Original Message-----
From: ROBERT W JUDY A HARTMAN
Sent: May 30, 2009 9:08 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fireblight

The actual king bloom is the middle one which produces the largest fruit.  The term is also used to designate the time when the king bloom opens up which means at the early part of the bloom for that variety in general terms.  Some varieties are kind of strange in that regard in that I was looking at one variety today that had fruit that was the size of large marbles but it still had a few blossoms that were flowering and fruit in sizes in-between.

 

Bob

Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC