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.
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
Those are Chojuro Asian pears.
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.
The Asian pear seedling, I just called it Korasu. Half Korean Giant and half Mishirasu.
Very interesting that your Chojuro are still green. Mine have all russeted over and are brown now.
The last photo is Chojuro and the 5th photo is Shinseki.
Anyone know of a pear with long 3 to 4 inch thorns. I don’t remember planting it.
Do you have a close up photo of your shinseiki? I’ve been trying to figure out if I have shinseiki or 20th century.
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.
Yes. It would be the same as introducing thru infected tools throughout a whole tree.
Thanks Dax, that makes sense. I’m guessing I’ll just stick to the few resistant varieties I’ve read about.
To answer my previous question about pear thorns I found this: Thorns on pears
If I were to bet, I would bet on It being Shinseiki.
@tonyOmahaz5could help you out here.
