If I intentionally runt out a pear tree -Blakes Pride on OH x F333- by letting it hold a full crop of pears at age 4, will the fruit also be runted or will it bear normal size fruit, assuming I thin properly?.
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That may be hard to determine, I know I have read here that ohxf 333 itself may result in smaller fruit.
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I’d say it depends on how much fruit you leave. I haven’t heard of pears runtting out like apples can. In apples it’s rootstock dependent. Pear rootstocks may not be dwarfing enough to permanently runt out. I say may because I don’t know.
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I’m interested to hear the answer as well. I have an Orient pear that’s now 4th leaf, and isn’t more than 6ft tall. It has lots of blooms on it this year, and I was wondering if it’s allowed to set a lot of pears, will it runt out? The tree is on Callery rootstock.
I have a 3rd leaf Harrow Sweet on OHxF87 that’s even smaller and it has a few blooms on it as well. Should I pinch off those blooms?
Maybe @clarkinks could chime in? I asked him a similar question on another thread.
I have a 3rd leaf Alkmene apple on G11 that is about 6ft tall, but doesn’t have a lot of big scaffolds, and has lots of fruit buds about to open up. About how many fruit should it be allowed to set, if any?
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My bet is you can’t runt them out. They may skip a crop but I think the tree will keep growing.
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Its not easy to runt out a pear but i have done it. I have a harbin / communis cross of some type i put on callery about 10 years ago that is about 5 feet - seven feet tall so it dwarfed the tree by at least 20 feet. I have had problems with ohxf333 fruit being small but i attribute that to the root system not being fully developed. Clay soil, and fast fruiting. I would not think its permanent.
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