Fruit and Vegetables: Grow Your Own

Re: Pear Trees

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:56:59 GMT

Whilst I share the concern of our friend's dilema. As I hav emade known before. Mike is no a fruit -man.

The benefit of this forum ,'My Garden' Expert and novice. WE can all learn something new, relating to our hobby or profession. I certainly have learned from the reply of my fellow member. Thank you.

Re: Pear Trees

OrangePippin — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:03:22 GMT

It would be useful to know the variety and age of the tree but this sounds like a case of "biennial bearing". Many fruit varieties are susceptible to this, and it means the tree will have alternate heavy and light cropping years. In effect the tree takes a year off to recover from the heavy crop.

There is not much you can do right now this year, but if I am right then this time next year the tree will have a lot of fruitlets, and you should thin them out aggressively. That will prevent the tree over-cropping next year, which should in turn restore it to a more normal regular annual cycle.

The other possibility is incorrect pruning, but since your other pear tree is doing fine I don't think it is a pruning problem.

Pear Trees

plumbob — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:59:01 GMT

Last year my pear tree had an abundance of fruit, this year it only has about 2 or 3. My apples, plumb and other pear tree are fine.

Any suggestions as to why my one pear tree has failed to produce?