The birds started pecking the Asian pears then they began disappearing so I picked them. They were not spectacular but still a very satisfying feeling to pick fruit from a tree I grafted.
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Usually the flavor of pears improves with age. Glad to read that it already fruited for you! Asian pears fruit quickly!
There are lots of varieties on it that I looking forward to trying. I added magness this year.
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Jason:
Did you try T-budding your pear trees? I found T-budding peach is very satisfying. but the root stock better to be young(at most 1 year’s growth, best is this year’s new shoot). my T-budding on old branches all failed. Don’t know if this would be the same for pear trees.
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I did not t bud my pear, I used a bark graft. The understock was very large. The original pear was 20 feet tall and I cut it back to six feet. I tried t budding my peach tree but it was before I was a member here and I did not do it correctly. I have bark grafted, cleft grafted and a small amount of whip grafting.
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I t-budded 2 older pear trees. Each tree I added two tbuds on and both had one tbud take. @fruitnut gave great instructions T-budding tutorial
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Jason,
T-budding saved me a lot of work this year!. Clefts, bark, whips, saddles have always been my primary grafts. Side grafts have their uses but for me I do less than 3-4 a year. I did hundreds of whips and clefts. Bark aka rinds are limited to maybe 10 a year on older trees. Can definitely see myself using much more t-budding in the future. Have you finished grafting all of your pears?
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It is kind of a work in progress, I think I have all I can keep straight on my old tree. I planted three ohxf 87 rootstock and let them grow this summer. I think I will graft them next year. Maybe a magness on one of them.
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They really grew fast! Nice looking fence! The cows are not going to walk in your orchard and eat their fill!
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No they are not, cows can do a lot of damage quickly depending on what you are growing.
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So here is a branch of Bartlett that I put on this old pear tree back in the spring of '15. Do you suppose this could be a fruit spur
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It looks like a fruit bud though it won’t likely produce this year.
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Thanks Clark
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Derby,
Once in awhile the first year they flower they produce fruit. Some spurs are definitely going to produce fruit such as this one I posted in another topic. Next year that Bartlett will spur up more and you should get a bunch of pears!
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I saw that photo in that thread and noticed the difference in the two spurs that you no doubt picked out immediately. The Spurs on your tree while still short show some knobby growth while spur on my tree is much younger looking. Thanks for the details and photo, maybe next year it will bloom and the weather will cooperate.
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These Shinko Asian pears are ready to be Harvested.
Tony
Pai Li AKA Beijing White Asian pears are getting close to harvest also.
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Beautiful Tony!
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Tony,
Have you picked the red blushing Bartlett yet?
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Not just yet. They are still rock hard.
Tony
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