Looking forward to starting to graft in a few months. Tracking down another half dozen varieties. Since I’m working with a variety of rootstocks I need to be careful with my limited scion wood. Callery rootstocks are not compatible with everything so I’m glad I have ohxf rootstocks also. BET and Harbin rootstocks are going to be perfect for my Asian pears but not perfect for my European pears.
Mamuang,
I know your interested in hw623 as am I but I’ve not seen it yet in the US. Not many people have heard of Hw623 sibling hw624 but I’m very interested in that pear as well. Here is a little information http://www.vinelandresearch.com/sites/default/files/rfp/pdf/624_pear_-_rfp.pdf
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Sounds interesting, a nice color too, I suppose that is important for commercially marketed pear.
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Cold snap is such a hit in Canada there are 75,000 trees in the ground. Here is another interesting article Still life in pears | Grower. Hw624 is not just resistant to fireblight but psylla also. The old Harrow program is turning out quality pears left and right recently eg.”ACTM Harrow Crisp, ACTM Harrow Sweet, ACTM Harrow Gold, Cold SnapTM (varietal name: Harovin Sundown), ACTM Harovin Bounty and HW623.”
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What pears has everyone else decided to grow?
Your little yellow pear to be exact!. Thanks Clark.
Tony
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Same as Tony- Thanks, Clark!
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I have a whole list of pears to graft this year. I was out this afternoon looking to see where to put all the grafts I plan . Leona sounds interesting and I am curious about ts hardy , both pretty obscure varieties as far as the internet is concerned. After hearing about the problems with fire blight on magness I am glad I have the opportunity to add warren this year also . I think it will take me from 12 varieties to around 23.
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Magness has not had problems here yet but we will see what happens.
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I have not had issues yet either but the graft on my multi graft tree is very slow growing. I put it on a dedicated ohxf 87 in its second leaf. It grew two and a half feet or so last summer. I guess time will tell. Honestly the only thing that I seem to have fireblight on is a Fuji apple so far, knock on wood
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Don’t know pears, I’m mostly trying to find something that will ripen in a short season, but planning to add this year:
Dave’s Delight, Doyenne de Juillet, Arganche, Kair Aarmund, Citron de Carmes, and Harvest Queen
Everything is also an experiment to determine chilly weather tolerance…
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The Harrow pears are good choices eg. Harrow delight https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/accessiondetail.aspx?id=1436367. It ripens 2 weeks before Bartlett so in zone 5 the fruit will have no problems properly ripening.
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Had tons of set backs this year. The droughr ensured we lost the tips of trees . New trees or grafts did not survive in my area.
I grated it to 3 different trees and all the Scions grew well but no flowers yet. Hopefully in a few years.
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Some of my attempts at growing things were failures. Looking back I’m just making notes on what I think I could do that might work better. The pound pear is one of my failures. 2018 was a very hard year. You have all heard the story of the pound pear which according to Raintree went like this Pound European Pear — Raintree Nursery
" One of the largest winter pears, weighing a pound or sometimes two. It is a heavy bearer. Pound was a favorite for hundreds of years in America, England and France where it is called Belle Angevine. Pound possibly dates back to Roman times. We got our start from a National Park orchard Raintree helped to restore on San Juan Island WA, that was originally planted in 1870. The green pear has firm flesh that turns yellow and is delicious when stored and cooked in the winter. Historically it was sometimes baked whole, wrapped in pastry crust."
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