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  • From: Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pitted pears
  • Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:25:45 -0400


Lon, thanks for the quick reply but I'm quite sure that's not it.
The damage I see happens every year on about the same number of fruit. About 10% of the fruit is damaged in an average year. The percent is higher when there are very few pears on the trees.
Last year, we had a nasty hail storm in mid June. Even though it was only nickel size and smaller, the wind was so strong that it blew the paint off one part of my neighbor's house and broke 2 of his windows. It also knocked down most of my plums or shattered them leaving only the pit and a bit of green flesh remaining. I harvested about 6 plums total. Just about every apple and every pear had damage but the damage did not look like the problem I am asking about. That hail also smashed off small chunks of bark every where it hit. Some of my young trees are quite scarred up but all damage has healed over.
I've seen 2 storms like that in 30 years. We've had larger hail but with not nearly as much wind. We get hail, on average, less than once a year and usually it's quite small.

Steve

Lon J. Rombough wrote:
I've seen something similar on pears here in Oregon when the young fruit was struck by hail. The damage usually occurs early enough in the season that the hail misses all but the widest part. We usually see only one mark to a fruit because two hits will make the fruit drop.
-Lon Rombough




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