Other than the difference in disease resistance aren’t magness and warren nearly identical? I know they share the same parents and I’ve read some people say they are indistinguishable.
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Magness does not do as well for me as warren. They taste identical there is no question about them being siblings. Warren produces heavier for me so far and faster. Many have said the opposite.
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Interesting I guess it may come down to climate and soil conditions. Seems to be the norm with fruit trees. As far as seckle and comice which variety do you find more vigorous and easy to grow Clark?
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Seckle is 20x easier to grow than comice in my climate. Out of the 7 comice i grafted i lost 4 to fireblight.
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I’ve read ‘Warren’ is self fertile where ‘Magness’ is not, can’t vouch for it.
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May I ask what rootstock you grow seckle on?
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Have it growing on callery and ohxf333. It is a very small tree. On callery its only 15 feet and on ohxf333 it’s about 12 feet.
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On a very vigorous rootstock, Seckle will get 25 feet tall. I’ve seen a Keiffer that was easily 60 feet tall. It was also about 60 or 70 years old.
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In regards to speed in fruiting, that matches my experience so far. I grafted Warren and Magness in 2017, and got my first taste of Warren last year. As everyone else says, it is a wonderful taste and texture pear, probably my fav so far. Still waiting on Magness…
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On callery, or ?
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I top worked a Harrow Sweet on OHxF 97
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My notes over the years on Warren and Magness are all over the map. What is clear to me Warren has better fireblight resistance than Magness but bears far less fruit here. But then:
“Both Warren and Magness have sterile pollen and cannot pollinate other pears” vs “Warren pollinates other pears.” Or “Warren does not set fruit” vs Warren is self-fertile or partially self-fertile."
Warren is: “…notorious for not attracting pollinators,” “is unattractive to bees.” I wonder if some bees are more industrious and thorough than others when it comes to visiting most of the blossoms and this explains Warren’s widely variable production.
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Our brand new Warren from Trees of Antiquity on OHxF 333 is loaded with fruit sets. Our Hood Pear is upwind from it and there was bloom overlap plus plenty of European honeybees.
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Clara frijs needs to come off my list as disease resistant. They had heavy fireblight damage last year. Maxine will replace it in on the list.
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Trialing several new disease resistant pears.
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@clarkinks are you planning on distributing the small yellow pear to 39th? I would like to add it at some point.
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Think i have distributed it fairly well but i will talk to Mike and ask him to carry it. Clark's Small Yellow Pear
Well, darn I must have missed when you were distributing it then!
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I have two growing grafts of the Small Yellow. I don’t yet have Maxine but look forward to getting scionwood and grafting it next spring.
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Message Mike at 39thparallel. I bought some Small Yellow Pear scions from him this spring.
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