To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] Red skinned or red fleshed
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:35:30 -0600
Presently have 41 different pear varieties on my list and never had
fire blight or anything other than plum curcillo and stink bug
damage. Now have 39 varieties as Ubllieen and Conference (as of fall
)are now ashes feeding other trees. Every year when it was dry and
warm about half the leaves of these two would turn brown but it was
not fire blight. They would fall off prematurely and had not
produced any fruit. They would look good in the spring (no blossoms)
till about very late July and then start to get brown patches and
slowly spread over the whole leaf. I took some over to the State
Experiment Station and they advised me to get them out as apparently
are not suited for this area. They determined it was not fire
blight. I have no water system in the orchard and this is a hobby
orchard, my play ground so to speak. Now I want to decorate it a
little with red pears. Ray
North East Wisc near Lake Michigan Zone 4-5
[NAFEX] Red skinned or red fleshed,
Ray Kaminski, 01/17/2006