I’m going to call it rosebud but I need to get this sport stabilized if possible. If not you get a rare glimpse of an ultra rare pear bloom! What will the fruit be like? Ever saw one like this? It’s a first for me and I grow a lot of pears! When you get a sport you mark it to work on it later and this was an unusual one.
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Will you be pruning to push growth from the mutated spur that produced this flower then?
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Yes exactly and try to get the bud to branch. That would be a very beautiful tree! Imagine the fruit!
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Clark you sure it’s a pear blossom? It looks like a rose, beautiful shape! I need give me pears a talk now
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Beautiful flower. Hope it does well and I think it could have some monetary value.
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It’ll be interesting to see how readily it sets fruit and whether the petals detatch readily as they age out. Some double flowers are prone to having petals stay attached while they decay which could be a problem for developing fruit.
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Started trimming up around it to force growth and reduce its competition. Removed the other pears and many leaves and branches. Hopefully fireblight doesn’t find it.
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If you carefully remove the flower and stem would that help prevent FB?
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Feel those pruning cuts right now are a big risk but whats done is done. The flower is equally risky but I’m curious about it. Need to treat it like a tbud and remove growth around it over and over. If it sets a pear I will remove it. Could you imagine a tree of those blooms or a row of those trees?
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Really beautiful!
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I hope you can get it to reoccur. That would be pretty cool! You could call it rosebud pear or something similar. Thanks for sharing.
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I actually think it looks Camellia like more than anything.
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My mother said that same thing she said call it Camellia not that I’m familiar with those like she is. Fortunately I have seen them in pots.
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It almost looks like a camellia. Just beautiful, can’t wait to see the pear!
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Well, that’s much less attractive. Must be a male flower; the windblown look doesn’t work so much for us.
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The wind ripped through Kansas last night and tornado like storms popped up all over. There was a touch down category 3 in Andover which is hours away from us. Sirens went off repeatedly.
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Well darn, now you might have to call it Dorothy. If you do, don’t plant mlokosewitschii next to it, it might get a limb dropped.
I hope the worst you and yours got was a few lost petals.
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@clarkinks or @JohannsGarden could you enlighten me about this? I understand the potential for mutations as cells divide but for it to specifically occur at only one bud is fascinating and I have not considered this in the plant kingdom
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