Thanks Mrsg47 for the compliment I really appreciate your kind words. It took me awhile to get good at growing pears. My first 12 years I did not get any pears. Took a lot of learning, patience, and hard work. Now that I’ve got better at growing pears things are going great. People say it’s easy to grow pears and it is but growing them the right way is actually very difficult. Pears can be very productive but they must be sprayed at the right times, have proper nutrients, proper pruning, be the right varieties for the area among just a few things. Then only half of the fruit we get is skill the other 50% of our success is up to nature. The hardest part for me was thinking far enough ahead to pare the varieties once I realized I can’t spray within a month or so of when other fruits are ripening. Pear orchards are literally non existent in my area. Though I have heard of the existence of one around 50-70 miles from here which I believe is the only other in the state. Professional growers such as @39thparallel and @Olpea can attest to how difficult it actually is to grow fruit in this area. Pears are one of the hardest to grow here. I still have a lot to learn which is a constant work in progress. It’s not been to long ago the trees that produced this fruit were snowed on during bloom and underwent freezing temperatures Strange weather - Will it get our blooms and fruit?. Sometimes we are blessed with good fortune. Like many other fruit growers this year I could have lost my fruit. Most of the small growers in this area lost their fruit but it was my hill top location for my orchard that likely saved mine. That same location cost me a lot of new grafts during the storms this spring and summer. Thanks to @fruitnut I used the t-budding method to graft a couple of those storm damaged trees later in the year after the weather calmed down. The more I know about growing fruit the more I know I don’t know.
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