are any of these buds on my pears flowers? the are all first year grafts so 
this was a branch i pulled horizontally/down to see what would happen:
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Good news and bad news. Pears typically set buds on 2-3 year old wood. This one might bloom this but I don’t think so I think it will wait a year. In the event it does bloom I have serious doubts it will set fruit.
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hah thanks. i guess thats why i asked because i wouldnt have picked that one as a maybe.
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@clarkinks my multi-grafted pear trees are doing a thing!
left: harrow sweet right: seckel
i think they are both partially self-fertile and can pollinate each other. i may try manual intervention. not sure they are going to be open at the same time.
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They look good!
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Excellent news!
I can understand your excitement getting new (and good) fruit.
But that pear has only two leaves? Each fruit needs a lot of leaves to provide sufficient nutrient it needs to grow into a mature, tasty fruit.
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when i posted above, the left image sort of shows that almost the entire branch was flowers:
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That’s typical of fruit trees, not just pears. They produce blooms everywhere including where there are no or few leaves nearby.
You should see my apricots, peaches and nectarines. Fruitlets were all over branches with few or no leaves. Then, on branches that are full of leaves, there are not many fruit (my apricots arethe worst).
I removed all those fruitlets that had no leaves or not enough leaves. You will get used to removing a lot of fruitlets in a couple of years.
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