Pollination of two pears

General Fruit Growing
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I mentioned that I lost two or three pears from a combo euro pear from raintree. Deer ate the grafts last winter. I am left with a Seckel and a Bartlett that do not pollinate each other. I might have a bit of Flemish Beauty left but I’m not really sure. Will an Abbe Fetel fertilize both the Seckel and the Barlett? I am having a difficult time finding a pear pollination chart with Abbe Fetel on it. Thanks

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Mrs. G

You can try finding out pollination crossings here for fruit trees. I can’t say if it accurate or not
but it appears to be a quite extensive listing when I tried using it.Orange Pippin Pollination Checker

Lance

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Generally two pears will cross-pollinate each other, seckel/bartlett is a rare exception. Here is a table from Raintree, you can see the only exceptions are that and a few where the bloom is really far apart. So I would probably assume you are OK until proven otherwise. Of course if you are grafting its always nice to add one more variety… pears are very easy to graft.

http://www.raintreenursery.com/plantcare/plant-care/pollination-charts/european-pear-pollinationripening/

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Thanks for the chart!

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Thanks to you too Scott. Well, You’re right. why buy another tree when grafting a pear is easy. I’ll restart my own Euro Combo pear. Anyone out there growing rare varieties of heirloom French pears?

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I used to have many of them… I think I still have 15 or so varieties left. Ask me for wood this winter. My favorite is Fondante des Moulins-Lille, its juicy and perfumed and fruits years before other Euro pears (for me it beat all the others by 4-5 years).

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I’ll have to remember that variety. I have one spot left that was a nurse branch remaining on a Karp’s Sweet that I topworked to other quince and pears. It is listed on the Corvallis Germplasm Repository’s list of quince compatible varieties of pear. They say it is a true dwarf on quince.

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Oh Scott, I will surely take you up on that! I doubt there is anything of mine that you might like, but you’re welcome to it!