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[Drevniok <colleendaly@videotron.ca>]

       My  (lone) Asian pear (variety unknown) set fruit without any 
pollinators. I have since added a "regular"  Flemish Beauty and a Clapp's.
   and really can't notice that it made a big difference in the amount 
of fruit setting on the Asian pear  - perhaps a little better.

         Peter Drevniok, Gatineau, Quebec zone 5


david.maxwell@dal.ca wrote:
> I have found conflicting information about the need for a pollinator for 
> these.  Are they self-
> fruitful? (One source said Shinseiki "tends to be self-fruitful", but other cultivars require a 
> pollinator).  Supplementary question: any comments on root stocks?  (One source seems to 
> suggest that European pear stocks work fine, but I have a vague recollection from the distant 
> past of talk of incompatibilities.)
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