Pai Li is loaded
The rest of the multi grafted pears are full of fruits also. I may have to thin more before branch breakage.
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Your pears are beautiful. What’s photo 5?
What is the name of your seedling Asian pear, Tony?
I have successful Pai Li and Shinko grafts among Improved Kieffer. Looking forward to tasting more Asian pears.
Dax
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Those are Chojuro Asian pears.
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Pai Li, is that a favorite? Which is sweetest and juiciest of the Asian pears that you grow? Which has the best balance of tart/sweet?
Pai Li and Shinko. I glad those two grafts took for you. Shinseki is the juiciest and mildly sweet and tart near the seeds.
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The Asian pear seedling, I just called it Korasu. Half Korean Giant and half Mishirasu.
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Very interesting that your Chojuro are still green. Mine have all russeted over and are brown now.
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The last photo is Chojuro and the 5th photo is Shinseki.
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Do you have a close up photo of your shinseiki? I’ve been trying to figure out if I have shinseiki or 20th century.
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Does grafting a non-blight resistant variety onto a blight resistant variety open that entire tree up to blight? In the future I’d like to graft some asian pears because I’ve read they take very well, but I don’t want to create problems for myself.
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Yes. It would be the same as introducing thru infected tools throughout a whole tree.
Dax
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Thanks Dax, that makes sense. I’m guessing I’ll just stick to the few resistant varieties I’ve read about.
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If I were to bet, I would bet on It being Shinseiki.
@tonyOmahaz5could help you out here.