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  • From: Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Ure pear
  • Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:11:21 -0400



Ernest Plutko wrote:
There are some small hornet-looking insects going around the apple
blossoms and even smaller flies. No insects on pear blossoms except
a few black ants. Read that pear blossoms are not very attractive to
bugs. How cold does it get where you are? What kind of pears to you
have? Thanks. Zone 2/3


I notice lots of insects on the plum blossoms (bees, flower flies, even wasps), mostly just bees and a few flies on the apples, and rarely anything on the pear flowers. Still, the pears seem to get pollinated when I'm not looking.

We are on the maps as zone 4a but most years, we have a few nights colder than -30 F and a couple of times my min/max thermometer has gone to -40.

My two producing pears are Nova and Parker. My original Nova died but before it did, I grafted a scion onto a mountain ash. That grafted tree is about as tall as my house even though I try to prune it back every spring.
The Nova used to set a good number of fruits when it was the only pear with flowers. It does better now with the Parker blooming too. One year the Nova had very few flowers and the Parker set no fruit in spite of many flowers.

I also grafted side branches of these two trees with scions of Parker, Summer Crisp, and Ubileen (I think I spelled that right) two years ago. They look good but no flowers yet.

Steve in the Adirondacks




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