I couldn’t have said it better. It took me several years to learn that not all fruit trees will do as well at my location as other places. Many of my apple trees don’t do well here but some pears have done really well. I still like to swap scions but I realise they may or may not do well at my place.
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I have a 10 year old 5-in-1 Asian Pear from Raintree. Shinseiki, Hosui, Yongi, Chojuro and Nijisseiki. All are good and usually produce. This year everything got zapped by spring frosts except Chojuro.That was the first time any of them were totally wiped out. I got 0% from 4 of the varieties, but Chojuro was loaded and needed thinned. I don’t necessarily think Chojuro has more bud hardiness than the others, though. Sometimes I think it comes down to micro timing of frosts vs. bloom development as well as how much fruit a variety has had the past few seasons.
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Big plus for pears vs apples: pears don’t get Apple Leaf Blotch disease, as far as I know.
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mamuang tries lots of things. I suggest you try to grow Spring Satin aprium which is a wonderful J. plum with a bit of apricot that is immune or at least highly resistant to black knot. You may be able to graft other varieties onto it that get the disease but can be controlled in that context- you will need at least one other to get full crops. Bluebyrd is a E. prune plum that is also virtually immune to BK. Both are available from Adams County Nursery.
For now on, every plum tree in my nursery will have either Bluebyrd or Spring Satin as the mother tree… I was a fool not to come to this idea years ago, but Bluebyrd is slow to establish for me and I just didn’t notice that SS wasn’t getting any black knot while plums I grafted to it were. Apparently, Adams didn’t notice it either. They promote the resistance on BB, but not on SS.
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You obviously could have cut it back and grafted Raja on to it too! On a big trunk many bark grafts and then pruning all but one works great, or even making weird umbrella shaped trees is possible, like this one in the middle
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Raja is ripe in August, Korean Giant in October. That’s what I think it must be.
But they bloom at the same time! They’re a great pair of pears!
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