Have little to no doubt at this point I’m growing Atlantic Queen. It still has not fruited and it’s been 7 years of waiting already. This is a typical slow to produce pear. This year I went and looked again and still no blooms and the rootstock I grafted to at the time was 2 years old. I’m growing it for lots of different reasons but early fruiting is not one of those reasons. Pears in general are terribly slow to fruit frequently making the patient grower wait 10+ years. You can see why many of us while we age started using ohxf333 and quince rootstocks to speed up the wait. https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/accessiondetail.aspx?accid=%20PI+541442
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“Atlantic Queen Pear
ATLANTIC QUEEN PEAR is a unique old French cultivar. The tree is prolific and tolerant of adverse conditions, with resistance to fireblight. The very large (to 1 1/2lb) fruit has yellow-green skin covering a melting, juicy, aromatic flesh. The trees can reach a height of 25 feet or more and grow in any fertile, well-drained soil, in full sun. They have strong vertical branches and require little pruning. The fruit grows on long-lived spurs and is spherical to typically pear-shaped. It should never be allowed to ripen on the tree. The ripening process is completed in storage where the pears will ripen more evenly. It ripens in September. It has done well in the east and west in both maritime and hot summers. USDA Zones 5-9. Needs a pollenizer.”
This pear like many others I’m told is good or bad depending on location. A great pear when grown in the right spot in the right way and an astringent pear when grown in the wrong place. Pears need full sun to concentrate sugars and don’t care to be grown in shade. Kansas is very sunny and hot in the summer so we grow great pears. Time will tell and hopefully we all live to see this one fruit! Don’t crowd this pear to much.
Yes I would say 4-6 years on 333. I used callery the year I grafted this one. I’ve been branch bending every year. Ohxf333 rootstock gets trees fruiting in half the time. There is a lot I don’t like about 333 such as it’s not as fast a grower as I like it to be but for a fast grower like Atlantic Queen it’s a good fit. I’m not sure 333 is a good fit for every European pear.
I have been thinking about girdling or bark inversion for a few of my apple and pear trees that are 7 yrs, well structured and haven’t produced…time to put 'em on notice!
I wish i would have remembered, but a seedling peer…maybe 5 years in the ground has flowers again (it fruited last year)…i think its from a store bought bartlett…and the pears were very bartlett’ish… I’ve noticed Bartlett are heavy croppers even when small…i have 2 from Starks and once again both are full of flowers and they aren’t even 6 feet tall… Young seedling pears have some nasty spikes on them.
This mystery should be resolved this year i have several small trees of these and they are loaded! Last year they flowered but the environment was to challenging for them.
They flowered again and are setting fruitlets. I’m really wondering what these are but I’m not ruling out another Clara frihs it’s a slow to produce pear.
