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  • From: "Natelson, Ethan, M.D." <ENatelson@tmhs.org>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] FB resistant pears
  • Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:14:04 -0500

Donna,

 

     We cannot grow classical Bartlett pears in Houston, but do have many other varieties that simulate named quality pears, but have lower chill requirements.  We have the Southern Bartlett, which looks like a Bartlett, which is why Travis Callahan gave it that name.  It is a chance seedling from southern Louisiana but does not speak French.  It has good size, heavy bearing, good fireblight resistance (not quite as good as Tenn) and has an excellent flavor on a fairly large spreading tree on P.calleryana rootstock.  It is the favorite pear of birds during the day and tree rats in the evening.

 

                                                                                   Regards, Ethan

 


From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Richard Harrison
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 1:21 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] FB resistant pears

 

Donna,

     I think I have Morgan---I went for a lot of those TN varieties like the one called 'Tenn". It is soft and fairly low chilling. One of the lowest chillers we have is the old Asian 'Pineapple'.

     I never had fireblight for maybe 20 years until a cold wet Spring brought it on. It probably affected every variety to some extent---some worse than others.

                                                                  Richard

--- On Fri, 6/19/09, Kieran &/or Donna <holycow@frontiernet.net> wrote:


From: Kieran &/or Donna <holycow@frontiernet.net>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] FB resistant pears
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Friday, June 19, 2009, 12:36 PM

Richard,   

    You can actually grow 100 varieties of pears that far south?  I get the impression that a lot of them simply don't get enough chill hours to bloom that far south.  As for growing Bartlett at all, I am baffled that you and Ethan mention high quality pears that I've never dreamed of trying to grow here.  David Lockwood, UT's horticulture expert, says he's never seen a Bartlett tree here more than 4 years old.  I really don't hold out too much hope for some of the varieties I've ordered, I just wanted to see what they were like before they died, and I didn't know any other way to go about it. 

    The UT pear program would check for resistance in seedlings by grafting a branch of Bartlett onto each tree, and then inoculate the Bartlett with FB.  If it stopped spreading when it met the hybrid, the seedling was considered resistant.  Morgan is apparently one of the few Bartlett seedlings ever produced that is truly resistant.  Studies showed that if parents that had at least some degree of resistance they produced more resistant seedlings.  Donna


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