Atlantic Queen
Gourmet
Luscious
Suij
Flemish Beauty
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How much land do you own in Portugal? You have a very large fruit collection! I think you will get enough chill hours for the pears. They look true to type.
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Hi… i have just 3000m2 with house already there… All this varieties are grafted on big Rocha pear trees. Just some varieties are trees. We are a country with many local pear varieties, so i will not have that problem i think. Pears are my new crazyness… 
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Hello Luis!
Have you maybe spotted growth like this on any of your grafts?
I have taken a scion from a tree that I have been passing for years. It is a monster of a tree - very vigorous and robust growth and the large pears stay on the tree after frosts. From a distance + speed I used to think it was a weird quince. The owners don’t know the variety.
U’ve grafted it in March on different rootstocks. This is on quince and already 40cm of growth with sideshoots at each leaf. The crinkling is a feature of the variety.
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Hi. There are varieties that grow a lot like kieffer but not so much.
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Thanks. Kieffer seems to be way too early for this one. The fruit is often on the trees in early December and looks plump. The owners often harvest it mid-late November, which is extremly late for even late pears here.
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Looks like callery rootstock leaves. I have seen a few asian pears do this. It is not yali but look at the similarities Ya Li aka yali pear . These are yali leaves
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Interesting. It is weird. The tree has been grafted quite some time ago. My guess is 100-80 years ago. There is a small chateau in the same village that hosted international visitors in that era and before. So it can really be almost from anywhere…
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It can be a local variety… maby.
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Harrow Sweet pear flowers… its the first time this tree is flowering but i think its too late, so i will take them out.
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Thats correct harrow sweet does that sometimes. Those are called rat tail blooms. We dont like rat tailed blooms here because they allow an entry point for fireblight. That means you will get a nice crop next year when the tree actually blooms correctly. Rat tail blooms are always long like a rats tail on the bloom. Some trees really do bloom twice like my clarks small yellow pear, collete etc. But they are normal blooms when it happens.
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Thank you so much Clarkinks, i didn’t know that! I will take them out!
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Harrow sweet is one of my favorite pears for many reasons. It has extreme resistance to disease, it produces early, the fruit is delicious and abundant. The downsides are it has a tendency to bloom when it shouldn’t, the pears become small because there are to many which require thinning (i dont thin them). Your welcome!
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Thanks a lot! All your posts are important to learn more! 
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One last thing is harrow sweet trees are all spurred up fruit blossom wood in a few years for the most part. That is why it is so hard to buy a harrow sweet tree because unless the tree is young the nursery will not be able to find enough scion wood to grow more to sell for their business. The tree will blossom on one or two year old wood.
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