'20th Century' Asian pear
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Comments (5)Hi andrea_san_diego, Some of those trees have low enough chill requirements for your zone and should be producing fruit. I am new to growing fruit trees but I do have a short story to tell that may help and a couple of links you may find helpful also. My short story. I have purchased 14 fruit trees over the last two years all of which were of fruiting size and age. The first year I had no fruit at all. Last year there was no fruit either and come September I gave my fruit trees some pelletized fruit tree fertilizer for the very first time and suddenly there were blooms and fruit growing which did not mature because I fertilized them too late and none of them had time to fully ripen. I my zone it is recommended that I mulch and fertilize my trees one the 1st of March and the 1st of July which I plan on doing this year and I fully expect to have lots of fruit. Here are a couple of links you may find helpful. I have another similar link that adds a few more tried and true low chill trees but I could not find it. If/when I do find it will post it in this thread. http://cals.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/az1269 http://www.starnursery.com/print.php?page=note.php%3Fid%3D28...See MoreAsian Pear powdery mildew/reddish leaves?
Comments (4)Yes, the red leaves are the earlier growth, and they actually look a little greener today. I guess I didn't remember them being so red last year, and the other 2 varieties don't look red or fuzzy. A photo is below... do you all think that is "normal fuzziness" or powdery mildew on the shoots (bottom left corner especially)?...See MoreHow do I know an Asian pear is ripe?
Comments (8)Kal: Something is wrong if your 20th Century (Nijiseiki) pears are reaching only golfball size. Asian pears need to be thinned heavily, sometimes over and over again, to allow the remaining fruit to achieve the size it should. I thin mine about 4 times, and the remaining pears reach over 3/4 pounds each. I am assuming here that you would prefer to have fewer large fruits than a whole basketfull of golfballs. Yellow skin generally means ripe, or nearly ripe, but try Danny Boquet's trick of shining a light through them at night to see if they are translucent. I have been doing this for years, and it is quite interesting. When the fruit is full of sugars, the light passes right through. Also specify your location next time you post. You may not be in the ideal climate to grow Asian pears, although they are widely adaptable. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA...See MoreAsian pear spray in first year
Comments (14)I bought a 20th century Asian pear and lost it completely to fireblight in it's second year. I didn't know that they needed such maintenance until mine was affected. It flowered it's second year, was so beautiful, and then it all just turned black down to various parts of the trunk from blight. Now I have a Shinko (bought it for it's known resistance), and a 4 in 1 variety (Shinseiki, 20th century, chojuro, Hosui) tree that both flowered their first year after planting bare root. Luckily none of them got any blight last year....See More- 10 years ago
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