To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Red Fleshed pear
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:04:38 -0600
At 01:58 PM 1/23/2005 -0500, you wrote:
Does
anyone have any personal experience with any of the few red fleshed
pears?
Ed,
I planted one, Summer Blood Byrne, probably 8-9 years ago. Got
fireblight and died back almost to the graft union the first year, but
has been unaffected since then.
I'm still waiting for it to fruit.
Lucky Pittman
USDA Cold Zone 6
AHS Heat Zone 7
Hopkinsville, KY