Clarkinks Top 10 flavored disease resistant pears for 2023

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Harrow pears - my observations

Harrow pears are highly disease resistant. They are so disease resistant you may not even need to spray them in the right climate. My observations so far would indicate to common diseases they have more immunity than kieffer pears. I can’t judge fireblight resistance yet in my area though they have dodged it so far. Harrow delight is easy to graft so easy in fact it could be used as an interstem. Harrow sweet is fast to produce and seems to have a tendency towards overbearing. The taste of harro…

ReplytoOlpea-topic Harrow Program Pears

I decided to create a new thread since the topic where this question came up was Captan on pears… Re: Yes the NAFEX forum still exists; I am going to be posting there more often, it is a shame it has languished. And that is my fault as much as anyone else’s. Also the name has changed to: Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters. That being stated, IMNTBMFO Harvest Queen is an excellent pear. It ripens handily on the tree and does not drop as Harrow Delight does. It is suppose to be a …

Harrow Delight Pear

ARS grin offers Harrow delight scions. Harrow delight is a pear of interest to me because it grafts 100% on most every rootstock every time. That seemed like to big of a coincidence so I researched it’s genetics and it’s (Old Home x Early Sweet) x Bartlett. Since it has the famous old home genetics it grafted to every callery I tried it on. Old home x farmingdale is easily the most popular rootstock. I’m really impresed with the Canadian pear breeding program. That makes way more sense now bu…

Harrow sweet pears aka HW609

Harrow sweet pears are a trade marked name. AC™ Harrow Sweet was developed from a cross of Bartlett x Purdue 80-51 (Old Home x Early Sweet). This same cross also produced Harrow Delight. - AC™ Harrow Sweet Pear on OHxF 87 - Cummins Nursery - Fruit Trees, Scions, and Rootstocks for Apples, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Peaches, and Nectarines. Many times i see people interested in these pears but usually for other purposes than facts.

Harrow Sweet pear questions

Much has been said about Harrow Sweet on this forum. I have a couple of grafts growing from last year but no fruit yet, and I am considering using some of the growth from them to graft more Harrow Sweet. But before I go overboard, I should know a little more about it. Has anyone tried growing it in a low chill area, such as California, Florida, or Arizona? What has your experience been? And secondly, I’ve seen it referred to as a fall pear, which would mean that it needs a month of cold storage …

Fireblight Resistance of Harrow Sweet, Harrow Gold, Harrow Delight & Harvest Queen Pearsin SE

I saw the pears in the Harrow research program in Canada have breed Barlett type pears with fire blight resistance. However, fire blight pressure is worse in the humid southeastern USA (I’m in zone 7a, Tenn.). HAS ANYONE HAD EXPERIENCE WITH HARROW SWEET, HARROW GOLD, HARROW DELIGHT, & HARVEST QUEEN in the southeast having good fireblight resistance? Thanks!

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