Thanks for getting back to me and Nice to e-meet you. I am new to backyard orchard and just bought a few apples, pear (including a dewdrop) and a peach tree. I will let you know how mine turns out if I don’t end up killing them!
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Glad to hear you got through winter 22 ok we are patiently waiting to hear about that delicious fruit first hand. Everything i read said it is very good!
Hello, again, I have been away from this forum for a bit, busy with bees, family health issues and all that brings. I am happy to report the Dew Drop is in bud this spring for the first time. My problem will be pollination, it is in my greenhouse and I do have 3 other pears but so far none are budding so unless I can get a hold of some pear pollen I will have to wait.
The Dew Drop on the rootstock it came with died out. I was wary that it would not survive our -40C winters even in the greenhouse. The one I grafted on Cottoneaster is healthy and thriving and I am just in the process of making the second espalier level. It is healthy to the very tips even though we did get to -40C. I was very concerned as in my greenhouse I usually bring in piles of snow to cover the ground for insulation but the weather turned very cold before the snow came and I thought the root zone would suffer.
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Hi! I’m curious if anyone has tasted dewdrop yet and how it was?
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I totally missed your message! I hope you were able to get some fruits last year!! Let us know how it went and hopefully you can get a good crop this year!!
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Anyone out there tried grafting Dewdrop pear to Quince root stock.
I kind of had a brain fart and chip budded some onto Quince today. I haven’t seen it on any of the compability lists, but then again it’s pretty new. Maybe it’s just not been thoroughly tested yet, or made it onto any new compatibility charts.
Either way I’ll graft a spare Concorde chip on in case dewdrop is incompatible.
I like dewdrop’s fireblight resistance, so I’d like to have more of it on some dwarfing root stock. I’ve yet to sample any of its fruit, but it’s supposed to be top tier. I have a tree on OHFx87 and a graft on Claps favorite. Both of those didn’t have the least touch of fireblight this year, when most others had it to some degree. Even my new Magness tree had some leaves scorched, but not badly.
I’m hoping Dewdrop is Quince compatible, I guess I’ll find out next spring.
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Been away again from this forum and have missed you all. Hopefully I will not have the same distractions in the coming year. The Dew Drop is still alive and blossoms every spring. It doesn’t have many but hey🤷🏼 I am not out for lots of fruit, just a few for fresh eating . That said I am going to have to search for pear pollen. It blooms in April/ May so I hope to find a southern source that has pears blooming earlier as none of the other pears around here are as early blooming.
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Get a summercrisp scion. You’re way up north!
Yup the saying is, we are not in the middle of nowhere but we can see it from here. I will look for a summer crisp scion this winter
I went outside today to check on my bagged/potted trees and was a little stunned at what I found. I looked over my quince root stocks and couldn’t believe my eyes. The quince tree that I screwed up and grafted a chip bud of dew drop onto in August was actually starting to push out green growth. Crazy stuff, here we are pretty near into November and this bud graft decides to spring to life.
The weather here has been warm, but wet of late. No sign of frost yet, and I don’t expect we’ll see any until the middle of Nov at the earliest. I guess I’ll need to move this quince tree and my Feijoa trees inside before the freezing temps arrive. My Feijoa trees are putting out new leaves as well. I put my bagged quince and feijoa up against my kitchen windows in Sept. I’m guessing this spot is now a bit of a sheltered micro climate for them, and they don’t know it’s autumn yet. I’ll move those trees inside for the winter so that the tender new growth doesn’t get destroyed when the temps dip below freezing.
It would sure be nice if the dew drop graft keeps growing and turns out to be compatible in the long term with quince root stock. Funny how a grafting error might turn out to be a new compatible pear variety for quince root stock.
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