Introduce myself to the forum

[Jose-Albacete]

Hi guys, my name is Jose and I am from Spain.
I am a big fan of fruit trees and I have more than 20 years of experience growing fruit trees, exchanging varieties with friends from other countries and participating actively in forums of my country and in forums of foreign countries.
I live in the central area of Spain, specifically in the region of Castilla la Mancha (Zone 8) and I have a orchard of 4 hectares with a lot of fruit varieties of all kinds.
In Spain I am the owner a Hotel-Restaurant, but my two great hobbies are the cultivation of fruit trees and sport fishing in the sea in all its modalities.

At the request of the moderator Scarlet (I send you a greeting from here)
She consider that it is convenient to coment some of the varieties of my orchard (it will be a little boring, but let's try).

Most of the varieties that I will be putting in this post, are available for exchange this winter (except the very small plants grafted this spring).

So that it is not so monotonous, today I will only put my collection of pears:

Let's go with the pears:

Abate Fetel
Alexander Lucas
Alexandrine Douillard
Amiral Gervais
Angelys
Beurre Bosc
Beurre Clairgeau
Beurre Durandeau
Beurre D’Anjou
Beurre Fouqueray
Beurre Giffard
Beurre Hardy
Beurre Lebrun
Beurre Luizet
Beurre Romain
Beurre Six
Beurre Superfin
Bohemica
Bon Chretien D’hiver
Bonne Louise D’avranches
Carisi
Carmen
Cascade
Charles Cogne
Clapp’s Favorite
Comtese de Paris
Concorde
Condo
Don Guindo
Decana de Comicio
Decora
Delbard Supercomice
Delbard D’automne
Delbard Exquise D’hiver
Delbard Gourmande
Des Urbanistes
Dessertnaja
Dicolor
Docteur Jules Guyot
Doyenne Sieule
Duchese D’Angouleme
Ekkehardt
Ercolini
Favorite Morel
Fondante Fougere
Fossette
General Leclerc
Gigante de Leon ( Giant local variety with more of 800 grams )
Harrow Deligth
Harrow Sweet
Jeanne D’Arc
Kolkol ( Giant local variety with more of 700 grams )
Le Lectier
Madame Fabre
Madame Verte
Marguerite Marillat
Merveille de Sisteron
Nashi Korean Giant
Nashi Kumoi
Nashi New World
Nouveau Poiteau
Novembra
Obelisk
Packam’s Triumph
Pierre Corneille
Precoce de Trevoux
President D’osmonville
President Heron
Red Comice
Regal Red Comice
Seckel
Selena Elliot
Soldat Laboreur
Starkrimson
Thomgen
Triomphe de Jodoigne
Triomphe de Viene
Van Mons
Van Mons Leon Leclerc
Williams Rouge



For today is fine, so tomorrow more of the same (tomorrow my collection of apples), so little by little you can see my collection of varieties

Best regards
Jose

[Baldy]

Welcome along Jose

...and...

oh my gosh !

(I've got one pear tree - you've overwhelmed me, can't remember the variety)

[Zelenina]

Hi Jose and welcome! That's a very fine pear collection. I have a collection of only three pear trees in my garden, but they are very big and produce huge numbers of pears. I don't know what varieties they are but they all look a bit different and they mature at different times.

[Jose-Albacete]

Do not let my collection of pears overwhelm you, you'll see when we get to my collection of cherry, pluots, etc ......

But we will go little by little, since I want to get to know the members of this forum, which for the moment has seemed magnificent.
I know only a little about the "rules" of this forum, and Scarlet "the moderator" has welcomed me and gave me the guidelines to follow.


So I hope that more people join this post, which I hope we all enjoy.

Please if someone have any question about any variety, you can ask what you want

a greeting
Jose

[lottie dolly]

Welcome to the forum Jose,

[Small pumpkin]

Welcome to the vine

[Scarlet]

Welcome again Jose, that is some collection! really impressive. My collection is also old and I have no variety names but I would love to learn a little more on your grafting proces. I'll need to get some Spanish books out!

[Guest]

Hi and welcome to the pear.....sorry I mean vine

What do you do with all that fruit? Would love to see pics (yes, I am nosey)

[damian1225]

Hello Jose welcome to the vine

[Jose-Albacete]

Hello again guys, and thanks for welcome to the forum.

Scarlet, I use the "whip and tonge" grafting system, for the varieties of fruit of the pip (pears apple trees etc .....), at the end of February, during the month of March, even until the middle of the month of April, with the rootstock in already in vegetative state, after those dates it is better to use the system of grafting Chip Budding.

Norfolkgrey, I am the owner of a restaurant, and I can use all the fruit, also gift the fruit to my family and friends, and of course I can put some pictures of my varieties of pears (now I am working), this afternoon I will do some photos and put them in the forum.

If some of you do not know some variety, you ask my about it.

Do not overwhelm yourself, my collection of pears, is not the most important fruit variety of my orchard, as you will soon discover.

Best regards
Jose

[Chris11]

Welcome Jose

The only fruit I grow myself is strawberries. I can see you are going to be a valuable contributor to this forum.

[vixylix]

Wow Jose that is an impressive list of pears - I can't wait to hear about the rest of your collection

Welcome to the vine!

[Cadalot]

Welcome to the vine Jose, I'm blown away with the amount of pears and really interested to see how big your total collection of fruit is. I have just given my brother in law the two cherry trees I had as they are cooking and not eating cherries, I didn't know they were just cheap at Lidl's but they made some excellent jam when in the hands of my sister in law.

[Jose-Albacete]

Hi Chris11, vixylix, cadalot, and rest of friends.
The promised is debt , so Let's go with some pictures of my varieties of pears.

It is the first time that I insert photos in this forum, so if I do not do it right, I will edit it.

Nashi New World

[burnie]

Welcome Jose