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Hood Pear
Hood Pear fills my requirement for a low-chill European pear with high fireblight resistance. There are better tasting European pears you could grow but they are in big trouble in my neighborhood. Still, the fruit I get from this tree is better than any European pear from a supermarket (because the supermarket fruit is not tree ripened). I spray it twice per year with a copper spray and it does great -- whereas the Flordahome variety I stock in pots needs treatment once per month.
I keep it pruned to about 7 feet total height as shown in the picture below. With the La Nina weather we've been having, the tree is putting out leaves, flowers, and setting fruit in February which it would normally do in April.
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Richard will this pear work in my climate of hot and humid Summers. On the peach chill scale I am 450 - 550 hours.
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I'm in traditional pear growing country (I still have one remaining Bartlett tree that's over 100 years old). My two unknown Asian pears (both were here before I bought the place) get fireblight just about as bad as my Bartlett. When I farmed pears I spayed 2-3 times per week during bloom season. Don't miss that a bit.
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Re: Hood Pear
With all this talk about spraying, I'll ask two slightly off topic questions about spraying. What would you guys recommend to deal with brown rot in nectarines (a problem for me both of the last two years) and rust in plums and apricots (a problem last year)?
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Thanks. Have done the dormant copper spray. Will follow with Spinosad later. Used Spinosad a few times last year to deal with the "pear slug" caterpillars.
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For pit fruits, the thrips come just about the time of fruit set and lay larvae. The larvae are part of the problem in damaging fruit, and the bacteria that feed on the larvae bring other pathogens. An early spray to kill the thrips and their larvae can solve a lot of problems at once.
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Re: Hood Pear
Yours looks much older than mine. I had Hood on my 3 in 1 low chill pear, also I have both of the Asia types you mentioned on my asia 4 in 1 pear. I did not think I would like the asia pear very much. Do you know how easy it is to graft pear? My low chill had 1 type die, so I want to graft on the asia types to it as well.
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Re: Hood Pear
The fireblight strains in California have been resistant to the antibiotic streptomycin since the 60's. Agri-Mycin is simply a trade name for streptomycin. I use it once per year on deciduous fruits during dormancy and as part of the treatment for bacterial spot disease on dragon fruit.
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Then it was some other antibiotic whose name I've forgotten after 14 years. Both have some effectiveness against strains so the sprays were alternated every other week. I attained very excellent control when following the UCD IPM fireblight model which takes into account temperature, humidity, flower stage, etc. There was also one copper (Kocide) spray used during bloom. Now, the more common method is using the bacterial product Blight Ban (might not have the name quite right).
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Oh yeah, it was terramyacin and streptomyacin
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Re: Hood Pear
I sprayed my pears for blight, codling moth, psyllid, and weeds and averaged about 20 sprays per year. Don't miss that. With all of the insect pressure here it's pretty hard to manage a small 7 acre orchard organically as the perimeters would still get lots of damage. I especially don't miss the organophosphate Guthion (greatly restricted anyways my last year of 1998).
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Re: Hood Pear
Most European pears have to be picked green and chilled for a whole. If they are left to tree ripen they are way over ripe and mushy in the middle by the time you think they are ripe.
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I have over 20 varieties of pears and have observed how they react to fireblight and other things. I have three hood pears and only one was labeled as a hood, the other two were supposed to be a seckel and baldwin. On non-dwarfing rootstock they take a longer time to produce pears and the yield is lower than what I get from other cultivars. They bloom between end of December and first warm week of January. This is before many of my other pears and may influence the yield. I am grafting other early blooming cultivars nearby to helpout. We also get cold snaps that may impact fruit set. I currently do not spray anything. I do fertilize with nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer and wood ash when I have it. Normally once established I do not water. But with retirement I will water a bit during periods of drought. There are many low chill fireblight resistant cultivars that are adapted for our humid and hot gulf coast climate. If you like crisp asian pears try the olton broussard apple pear. The southern bartlett x Callahan is now available from just Fruits and Exotics that they grew from grafting wood I gave them. It is a rapidly growing, spreading tree and yields early and resists our local fireblight. My problem has been with ripening it to a good level of sweetness. Travis Callahan told me to leave the pears on the tree longer and then a pack of coyotes and other critters ate them. Also my trees are not getting full sun and I need to cut down some more shading pines and maybe thin out the pears a bit. Google Travis Callahan pears and posted there are the experiences of pear growers, mainly from the south. There is sort of a break between californian and northwest fruit growers and the rest of the country, especially in the south due to very different climates. The western fruit growers are more active relative to coming up with new developments in my opinion. Especially for low chill cultivars. Setting up orchards in the south is becoming more active and recovering almost extinct cultivars and rediscovering old knowledge is in progress. People use to grow a lot pears and even apples in the south. The big thing is choosing the right cultivars and the Hood for the home grower is a reliable tree that I harvest fruit from in July. |
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Barnetmill,
I am thrilled to find someone near me that has the knowledge and experience with pears and apparently a lot of other fruits. We are lucky to have Skeeter (member here) that lives in Pensacola and he knows citrus, blueberries and bananas very well. If you have questions about those he can help. Hydroid (another member) grows very impressive bananas but his climate is better than ours. He lives in Gulf Shores. He is very generous with pups. We need to get together and talk. I interested in your pears and would like to see about getting some loquat seedlings from you. Big Jim is supposed to be a good Loquat cultivar. I have a Fuyu persimmon but it is only one year old. Doing anything with Paw Paws? It may be a good wildlife foil. The persimmons should work great around here too.
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Re: Hood Pear
I notice that quite a few of the people here spray. I was reading something on native bees the other day and apparently they are declining in numbers. After work today I walked through my orchard and looked at blossoms and did see both honey bees and native bees are work as I normally do. I see native bees out during the winter on any warm day if there are flowers about. Pear blossoms are low in nectar, but there are always honey bees on them anyway if the weather is warm.
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