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Morning , I have two conference pear tree's which are really full of fruit , now do i thin the fruit out to give the others a chance ? if they go on at this rate the branches will break .
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I thin mine when the baby fruit are about an inch long if it looks as if I'm going to end up with a branch breaking crop. I just get in there with the secateurs. -
Mines covered too,they’re very small at the moment tho. I wonder if they’ve grown a lot this year as last year there was only one pear that survived the frost here (it was surrounded by plum tree growth). If they're not thinned will they end up as biennial bearers? I think to stop that happening,flowers should have been reduced,so next year we might have less fruit because of the amount this year…
”Biennial bearing occurs in fruit trees where they carry a heavy crop one year and little or none the next. Without a crop to support in any one year, trees use their resources to produce flower buds leading to tremendous blossom the following year. The resulting heavy crop reduces the tree’s resources so that little blossom is made the following year.
This is a common disorder with apples and pears but can occur with a range of tree fruits.”
”Biennial bearing can also be started by frost destroying the blossom one spring.”
https://www.rhs.org.uk/problems/fruit-biennial-bearingLocation : EssexComment
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I actually had a look today at my pear tree. It's a a Doyenne du Comice and for the last three years it has given us more than we could eat..... plenty to give away. We gave away our Conference tree as we didn't like/appreciate them and our allotment neighbours dug it up, replanted it, and it moved very happily to it's new home. We love the Comice pears, they are just so sweet and juicy to eat fresh.
Unless our present tree naturally drops some fruit I am going to have to spend hours thinning them out as it is completely overloaded. There are only so many pears a person can eat......although my sister was muttering about Perry!Comment
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Thank you all for your kind remarks , i shall start thinningComment
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