Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

nafex - Re: [NAFEX] Identifying a pear

nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: "Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Identifying a pear
  • Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 21:00:40 -0600

Deb,
Kieffers are russetted over green/yellow, and can be gritty, and if they overcrop they can be small. But if the fruit was round, apple shaped, it could be pure or at least nearly pure pyrifolia. It could be a seedling tree. I'd be very curious as to what varieties you tried to grow. Maybe you just needed something a lot more blight resistant than what you bought. Or I suppose you could be a bit too far north for calleryana rootstock, and all those you planted happened to come on it. Or you planted dwarf trees, on quince, and they died from blight or apple borers.
Actually, I'm not sure I've managed to kill any pears yet, something I might need to be able to do someday in the future. What's your secret? Donna




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page