So I’ve run out of yard space to plant anymore trees (for now) and have a large 24" pot that is just screaming for something to be planted in it.
My wife and I enjoy fresh pears from time to time, so certainly we’d be happy with <40 per year.
My local garden center is having a really great sale on fruit trees and I can pick up a 3.5 gal Bosc Pear tree for under $30.00.
My question is will this tree be happy in a large pot, and with roughly 850 chill hours in my area will it thrive?
That’s plenty of chilling. Unlike my apples the Bosc and Comice pears never seems to show any effect from the very low chilling we’ve had recently. Mine took 7-8 yrs to first bloom. It might bloom earlier in a pot but man I just don’t see that being a good combination. The tree may almost quit growing entirely before it blooms. It can only get so big in a pot.
I’d try something else or sell the pot. I’ve been thru the pot thing with many fruits and it hardly seems worth the effort.
Dwarfing rootstock? Then try the big pot.
Thanks.
I had a feeling it may be a problem.