Some pics i said i would take. I picked them all this morning.
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Yours are pretty good size. Glad more people appreciate HS. Mine will be about a week from now.
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This is very cool to see. I planted a Seckel whip on ohxf87 last season and grafted harrow sweet to the central leader at around 4 feet a few weeks back. Hopefully this combo will be fairly easy to keep at around 10-12 feet throughout the years. Fingers crossed.
Thanks for the awesome threads.
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Those are 2 very good choices in pears! Seckle and Harrow sweet are delicious.
My sisters little orchard at her old house has a 30 year old seckel pear in it that was by far the best tasting fruit there so i bought a tree from cummins. Her seckel was actually a pretty large tree. Easily 20 25 ft.
Now i see people talking about seckel varieties and i hope cummins seckel tastes just like that old seckel and is just as FB resistant. The barlett pear next to it had fireblight for years and the seckel never suffered.
The harrow series are new to me but look awesome. This season i ordered harrow sweet scion wood and a friend ordered harrow crisp on ohxf87 with my Cummins order. He asked me to trim it open center and i got to keep the scionwood. I grafted the harrow crisp and seckel to bradford pear seedlings at my kids favorite park.
Gave the rest of the wood away to a guy from this app. That 1 tree went far lmao. My friend with the harrow crisp lives in the city with tons of houses near by so i told him if the flowers dont start turning into pears next season ill graft on seckel pear to it for him (i told him to eventually pinch the flowers off the first 3 seasons) The harrow crisp had fruiting buds on the central leader. I cut them off but still, thats impressive. Thanks again for these pear threads. So much information.
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5/5 grafts took on OHXF97. I have high hopes for them.
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@Ethancactus If you can, help save the dyehouse cherry. If you locate and start propagating Dyehouse Cherry again… that would be awesome. They do well in Kentucky, produce semi dwarf trees from seed and the seedlings near the old Dyehouse cherries produces fruit equally as good at the old farmhouses, so i heard years ago from someone on a forum who had actually went and sampled the cherries at one of the old farmhouses. Ive been seeing people post for years about the Dyehouse cherry. Help save it if you can.
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Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I will definitely try if I can source the variety…
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