thank you i will find it is the ingredient different than copper fungicide?
Yes its different. Its a systemic. Applied at green tip early on, some apply again in june. You can find t at any garden center, lowes, etc
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It’s not the blooms specifically, it’s that new, tender growth is much more susceptible to infection that older woodier growth. Blooms are 100% new tender growth and there’s a bunch of growth points at each one.
More resistant varieties that become infected with fire blight tend to have the lesions stop sooner. So you might lose the current year’s growth or a bit of last year’s or some two year old wood. Highly susceptible varieties the infection will spread all the way back to the trunk and/or rootstock creating cankers on the trunk or killing the root system.
Ahhh…OK. Thanks for clarifying. Fireblight is kind of a new thing for me to deal with. Up until about 4 years ago I can’t recall seeing it on our apple or pear trees. I picked up a moonglow pear (supposedly fireblight resistant) at an off Island nursery in the Fraser Valley 4 years ago. The moonglow pear has spread fireblight to both my apples and pears in the summers since I brought it home. Last summer and the one before were so dry I didn’t really see much of it. This year was good right up until the last 2 weeks when the weather became very rainy, then the outbreaks began. Nothing was killed, just some scorching. Although one root sucker I was planning on harvesting for rootstock was scorched almost to the ground. I guess if it made it all the way down to the roots it could have killed the entire tree. Luckily it didn’t.
The only thing the rain has been good for has been to allow me to seed grass which I normally would never do in August. The plums and my tomatoes all began splitting once the heavy rain started.
Either way it has been no big deal as it has all been manageable. Just more work having to process everything before it rots.
Pear rust is actually cedar hawthorn rust. It was a serious problem with my Mayhaws when I lived in north MS. It was easily controlled with a special fungicide the name of which I can’t remember. I don’t think it is still available. Before I started spraying, all of the fruit were unusable. The new fungicide,myclobutanil, has a good 4 day kickback to kill the rust spores.
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I think your Moonglow pear is mislabeled. It certainly should not be a “Typhoid Mary”.
It’s possible it was mislabeled, but I cant say. I’ve had it for 4 years, but still no fruit yet.
Can someone confirm that the pear on the left in the picture is a Korean Giant? I planted 3 Asian pears (Korean Giant, Hosui and Shinseiki) from Ison’s last year. This year, the suposedly Korean Giant and Hosui tree bore fruits. The fruit from the Hosui (on the right in the picture) does look like pictures posted by members on this forum but I’m suspecting the Korean Giant I have looks more like a Shinseiki pear. I’m hoping I’m wrong.
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I was under the impression that Shinseiki is yellow skinned, but usually smaller than the average asian pear. Could it be Nijiseiki?
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The one on the left looks like my shinseiki. Mine are smaller. Korean giant looks more like the one on the right in color.
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That’s my suspicion, thanks for confirming. That labeled KG set about two dozen fruits but I thinned it down to 5 so I can taste it this year… maybe the tree can’t support that many fruits it’s 2nd year in the ground that’s why the pears are somewhat small. I’m hoping the tree labeled Shinseiki may turn out to be a KG when it set fruits in the future, though its leaves looks a lot like the Hosui with reddish color on new leaves. The new leaves on the labeled KG are totally green without shades of red tint.
Look at these photos:
And these:
Korean Giant also ripens much later than Hosui or Shinseiki
I’ll take some photos of my Korean Giant later today. I’m busy until after 10:00 PST
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My sinseike is almost completely finished. My hosui is mid-ripening. The KG are hard as rocks.
I have to agree my KG looks a lot like your Shinseiki, it was small, which I attribute to the young tree, but very crisp and juicy. And I think I picked the Hosui too early as it was bland and not very crisp.
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Just went back to Ison’s web site and notice my KG pear looks most like their 20th Century Asian Pear picture.
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Shinseiki = 21st Century
Nijiseiki = 20th Century
Shin usually means something like “new” “super” “true” (based on Super Nintendo games) and “Niji”…looks like it’s referring to the year 2000/“second” millennium. Someone who actually knows Japanese might explain it better/less incorrectly.
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Yeah, that was Hosui on the right and Shinseiki on the left. I like Shinseiki. It taste different than most of the others. They radically over set though, so you need to thin if you want some good sized ones.
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When a pear tree oversets fruit size and quality are great reduced.
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Shinseiki translates New Century.
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