2021 Buds, Flowers and Fruit!

I believe it will heal itself after time goes by. It is very difficult branch to put any support on it. I removed 11 pears to give all the energy it needed and only left one. As a backup I will take some wood from this branch and re graft it somewhere.

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Your pears look fantastic. You have quite a few Moonglow, what will you do with them all? And will they ripen all at once? Pear Jam?

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Thanks . I believe there are close to 150 pcs on the tree. After giving to my family, friends and neighbors will not left that many but as you know pears can stay in fridge for a long time and keep ripening. I tasted one other day bitten by birds and was very sweet and pleasant . If still left too many then can make a jam.
This will be the first significant harvest and I will pick all these at once and let them ripen inside since birds are destroying too many.

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Look what I found :upside_down_face:. This is on my plum tree which is next to peaches # 2.

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@FarmGirl-Z6A your Reliance scion is going bonkers on one of my peaches. Hoping it might set a couple of peaches next year. Yours look beautiful. :orange_heart:

@Naeem that is so funny! ‘Someone’ decided that nest looked like a bowl I guess!
About your branch that is at risk . . . if you happen to have an extra shepherd’s hook around to prop under it, I found that they work very well in this situation.

@IL847 Annie, your plums are beautiful . . . yellow spots or not!

And to everyone who commented about Toka being very vigorous but producing tiny fruit - I found the same. I’m going to really take a saw to some major branches of mine this coming winter - and use a lot of it to start other varieties. Not impressed with Toka. Santa Rosa is almost as bad . . . but just not quite as vigorous. Maybe plums are just tough to grow here, and I should stick with the peaches and nectarines and apples and pears.

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Flavor Queen pluot and a mystery Asian Pear. 16 brix on the pluot and 10 on the pear.

The Asian pears just don’t seem to get sweet for me. I know they are ripe because they have turned from green to yellow and many are falling off the tree. Flavor Queen to me was just average. I much preferred Splash despite it being smaller in size.


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Yours looks like Shinseiki. I tend to prefer the brown skinned varieties although greenish ones like Drippin Honey and Shin Li are very sweet and tasty.

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I have no idea abut Asian Pears, this will be the first one I will harvest if stayed on tree. Next year I will graft more on that tree.

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David
I seconded @PharmerDrewee that it is likely be a Shinseiki. The ripening time, the shape and color is right.

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Message me in the winter about this. I can recommend some that I like a lot for the local climate. You too @speedster1

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Well here is the thing. I’ve been eating them and thinking they are Shinseiki. However, I have another large branch that is clearly labeled Shinseiki that are a little smaller and behind the mystery pear in ripening. So if the Shinseiki labeled branch is correct, the mystery pear is something different. It’s definitely larger in size and a little more irregular in shape.

I have both Shinseiki and 20th Century pears. Shinseiki is larger and tastes sweeter than 20th Century. Their ripening time overlaps.

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So do you think my limb that’s labeled Shinseiki is actually Nijiseiki (20th century)? I guess it very well could be. The tags I have on it is one of those acrylic tags that I made a few years back.

Correction!! I had Shinseiki until last year. This year,2 both grafts got fire blight, I removed both.

I have a 20th Century Asian pear tree for over 10 years. No issue with fire blight.

2018 graft of Lodi on G.222. I had about 5 fruit on it this year. Today I noted the largest one had turned yellow so I picked it. Too early, the seeds were still too light, flavor was tart, texture wasn’t crisp, but not mush either. Fruit size was quite large. I’ll let the remaining Lodi color up more before picking.

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i grow yellow transparent. one of lodis parents. by time y. transparents seeds darken , it turns dry and mealy but does get sweeter. i prefer them slightly green and tarter so they are still firm but i like sour fruit. once they turn yellow, they are prefect for sauce and cook down easily.

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I get 3 Asian pear trees. All are loaded. Do I need to thin them?

First two are for Shin Li. Pear should be large size.

Last one is un-named. Lost tag.

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in your 2nd /3rd pic theres some dead leaves. is that a f.b strike?

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No. Those are damaged branch tips from cicadas. I get damages every year. More severe this year. Beetles attach cherry and peach too. But not many beetles this year.

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ok. didnt know if you saw that. we are in F.B country and im paranoid about any clusters of dead leaves.