What we are looking at here are left over pears these trees were picked several times over. When I tell someone I can pick bushels of pears from a tree they don’t believe me. Posts like this one Pear trees that produce bushels of fruit and avoid disease say it all. This one confirms what I’ve said A lesson in pruning pears . In the event pruning is needed this video will help When Pruning Pears theres a lot to learn - Brindilla, Tira savia, Chicken Paw to name a few terms . In Kansas we don’t normally need to prune to invigorate as we have some natural limb breakage and other things. It’s clear I didn’t prune away my fruiting wood on these trees. Most trees in my orchard have never been fertilized but rather grown in native soil with no special care. The wild pears show no signs yet of needing anything special
This tree as an example will need some pruning as the weather and heavy fruit load have taken away its natural shape. It’s been 6 or 7 years since it was pruned. Limb breakage does occur unfortunately at times.
@MikeC @BlueBerry pears in my opinion are the best fruit to grow in the heavy Kansas clay and loam soils for the reasons shown above. The old farmers got a good laugh out of it when I said I was growing fruit. Corvallis has helped me find pear varities that work better in this experimental orchard. The wild callery pears rootstocks are adapting to this climate. They withstand drought or heavy rains.