Pear Pruning?

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This is old thread may be useful.

Pear trees that produce bushels of fruit and avoid disease

My idea of growing pears is to produce as much fruit as I can while avoiding as many diseases as I can. Pears are not always very aesthetically pleasing to look at. It can take a lesson in patience at times to not prune them severely to shape them up. Through the years I’ve learned tolerance so most of my pear trees look something like this one. [image] At some point I realized pruning in summer causes diseases. Pruning pears is not a great idea at all unless there is a problem. Pears send ton…

The prevalent thinking is more towards dwarfs than standard trees even though there are many drawbacks.

Exposing the truth about standard versus dwarf fruit tree rootstock

I’m going to focus on pears for my purposes , feel free to use the link for your own purposes. There are many reasons standard trees make more sense to me in my situation. Deer can’t reach the top of a standard tree, standard trees produce more in the same amount of space, standard trees tend to live much longer, etc. . [Screenshot_20230422_115456_Samsung Internet]