I’m growing Potomac and it’s been a good growing tree for me. They say it’s got the best flavor but that remains to be seen. I’ve read it’s as good as danjou. I’m growing it on bartlett rootstock. The parent bartlett tree had constant disease problems so I top worked it.
Not to hijack the original thread, but here’s my Potomac tree and a few fruits from it this season (sorry for the poor focus). I think there are likely a dozen or so pears on it this year, though I’ll have to dig around some in the foliage to be sure I’m not missing a bunch. Sorry for the horizontal photos, I’m not sure how to rotate them.
Pears are mislabeled so often and rare pears without descriptions are even worse. This was posted on another website so I’m not sure what to think! This photo differs greatly from the photo at Corvallis.
Madame boutant or whatever it is it would seem I have 1-3 trees of which all fell victim to poor tagging that year. More pictures coming soon as 2 more large pears coming into production.
Originally the wood came from corvalis i.was told. The pear in my photos matches their pear photos. There is nearly no information available so it’s hard to compare this pear. They have never mislabeled anything in my experience.
I grafted a scion of Madame Boutant from Cummins this year. I think I should have done my homework! The pics from May’17 (GRIN) posting show scab - on leaves and fruit. And GRIN’s description bears this out:
|DISEASE|FRUIT_SCAB|RATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY FRUIT SCAB|4 - (1 = NO DAMAGE, 9 = SEVERE DAMAGE)|PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1988|||
|DISEASE|PSEUDOMONAS|RATING OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY PSEUDOMONAS|5 - (1 = NO DAMAGE, 9 = SEVERE DAMAGE)|PYRUS.CORVALLIS.1988|||
Yet your Jan 21 pic looks perfectly clear! Do you control scab with lime sulfur spray? Or perhaps, unlike western Washington, you’re luckily not in scab country!
That’s sad to hear, as all my grafts from the spare scionwood @cdamarjian sent me have taken on my neighbor’s volunteer mountain ash leaning over the property line. The fruit description was so enticing!
We can’t say with 100% certainty the wood I received is madame boutant. As I said above I question if it’s mislabeled as the pears look very different. We only know the pear shown above is not resistant to fireblight.
