Last fall, I transplanted an Asian pear. The main trunk is about 4-5" diameter. I was not certain that it would make it since a lot of roots got lost in the process.
In spring, it sent some growth and lots of flowers. But most of the leaves had something like sun scorch damage. I’m still not sure if this is disease, or scorch from lack of water intake from the loss of roots.
Here are some recent photos. You can see the black leaf damage. So far, the tree looks healthy.
My 2 cents, I think you are right. Looks like wind and sun damage.
It looks bad in early spring when this happens. New leaves come out now and they look better.
I think the tree is doing amazingly well for a transplanted pear. Did you move the whole ball? I’m guessing you did. If not, I’m especially impressed. I’ve lost A. pears that big bare rooting them, even though I saved a ton of root in the digging process.
I’m with Alan, its very impressive to be looking that good after a move like that. You might want to thin the fruit more to not stress the tree so much this year.
Yes, I always remove fruit after transplanting except in the rare instances the tree doesn’t skip a beat in vigorous growth.
The tree was moved in last November. We kept about 4’ rootball, but no soil. The tree itself is already heavy and it would have been unmanageable if we tried to keep the soil. Also, the soil probably would not stay. We had to lift it inside a mini van. I think we cut about 1/3 to 1/2 of top growth.
The planting hole was already dug the day prior. So it took about 45 minutes to plant it. The hole was not large enough.
I thinned a lot of the tiny fruits. Yes, I need to thin more. And I may just leave a few to see how the fruits taste. It is a bronze skin type pear.
Well congratulations. A job very well done.
Thanks.
