Native Hunter
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Things are looking promising:
Pear Growth in six years
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g squared 23
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Things are looking promising:
Holy smokes, I’m excited for you. I’ve got several of those from TWG, hope they hold as late as advertised
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Triple C
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I can grow Kieffer's with the best of em. Problem is Mother Nature never cooperates. Took these pics yesterday of one of the pears that bout 20 ft tall planted in 2013 or thereabouts. As you can see, mine are already leafed out and loaded in tiny fruit. Just waiting on the April frost to drop down and kill bout 90% of all my fruit. Happens just about every year.
Triple C
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I got a bad case of em. 18 mature pear trees across the property and I could have put all the fruit in a 2 gallon bucket last fall. Trees looked like they do above. Loaded with baby fruit. One year...I'm gonna win the frost battle.
Mennoniteman
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What's your opinion on pear tree growth between untrimmed and well trimmed? Talking about the first several years after a tree is planted, I've been noticing that trimming a pear tree similar to how you would trim an apple tree seems to slow the growth of pear trees...
Native Hunter
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As long as you don't remove too much, I have never noticed any difference in the growth. However, if you remove enough of the limbs that it cuts a significant amount of sunlight energy being absorbed, I can see where it could make a difference.
Native Hunter
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Looks like a heavy fruit set on these pear trees this year. Starting to feel good about the weather chances - nothing below 35 degrees in the 10 day forecast:
Mennoniteman
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You're thinking the danger level of another incident of a drive by fruiting being committed in your jurisdiction late this summer is going up?Looks like a heavy fruit set on these pear trees this year. Starting to feel good about the weather chances - nothing below 35 degrees in the 10 day forecast:
Native Hunter
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Native Hunter
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Two weeks from now should be about time to topwork persimmons in my area. I did 4 apples on Saturday.
TheOldOak
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Let's see some of the before and after pictures of top worked apple trees, if you have them. I have a bunch of apple trees that are getting large enough reaching the top branches is difficult. Not sure whether to break out a ladder or just let them do their thing. My apple production has been pretty sad to date. They just haven't set much fruit, even though some of these trees are 6 years in the ground. About half are on full size rootstock, the remainder are 70-80% full size rootstock, or thereabouts. I have heard it takes longer the larger the tree, but hoping it's coming soon. Pears another story, I had a truckload of pears last year on 6 trees. Thinking I should have planted more of those...
Native Hunter
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Below is a thread I posted last year of how an apple tree looked two years after I topworked it. In two years time, most of the ones I topwork are back to the original size of the tree, but fruit production will come gradually.
http://deerhunterforum.com/index.php?threads/new-york-apples-in-a-new-york-minute.5072/
Apple trees on a full sized rootstock can take 12 years to fruit, but many will be a little quicker. Most on B118 and M111 will start in less than 4 years. If your 6 year old trees are good cultivars, you will probably be just fine. If you chose cultivars that are not disease resistant, you will have problems.
One final thing - Once a tree starts bearing, it takes 2 or 3 years for it to get all of the kinks straighten out. Fruit may fall early or not be of great quality for a while. The most important things with apples is not to get in too big of a hurry, but look forward to what will eventually come if you make good choices in the beginning:
Mennoniteman
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I'm intrigued by pear trees for deer. What kind of pears are those six trees?
