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["Bob Hartman" <hartmansfruit@msn.com>]

My first question is: Do the pears have seeds in them?  Sometimes trees will 
produce fruit without pollination.  That happened to me a couple of years 
ago.  I had a Sirrine pear tree that nearly every pear had no seeds in them. 
They were a little smaller than usual.  The process is called 
parthenocarpic.
Bob Hartman
Western Washington

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Fruth
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 7:52 PM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [nafex] Pear surprise

   Nineteen years ago I planted a Ure Pear along with two would-be
pollinators.  The pollinators died long ago and the self-sterile(?) Ure has
remained barren until this year.  For the first time, it is producing fruit,
but only on the lower branches.  Has anyone else had a self-sterile fruit
tree that has become self-fertile?

Jim Fruth
Pequot Lakes, MN

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