@fruitnut is the only one @alanmercieca i have known who can really grow bosc. They get fireblight here before they even bloom. There is nothing better than a really good bosc. They are as you describe them. What a great pear from the expert pear breeder van mons. No one has ever bred pears better than he did. It is unlikeley they ever will. If you ask me to rate a good bosc it is a 9 or 10 on a 10 scale. The Clarks yellow pear is also at that level and equally as impossible to grow sometimes. Pears like warren are very easy to grow and rate just below bosc. Harrow sweet is another i think a small child could grow with a little guidance that rates very high. Potomac is another very easy to grow good flavored pear. All that said bosc can be better and even the highest quality if grown right in the ideal location with the ideal weather. Not to much water, not exposed to extremely hot direct sun or over shaded, the prior year needed to be good to store nutrients in the roots, no loss of foliage the previous year to early, enough nutrients but not to many , the right type of soil preferably slightly higher ph around 7. Enough organic mTerial in the soil and soil organisms to feed on them, traces of boron, woodchips around the tree to even out moisture intake through the season, properly thinned crop, etc.
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