William Black

Hey you guys... I've had a few peach trees my Dad planted which have been around 20 years... one of them did really well until I tried raising reishi nearby. It could be the reason several branches fell... but maybe something else. It grows in a wet corner that gets flooded lightly for a handful of days but in think the root stock is tolerant... did fine then suddenly around that time lost two main branches

The tree survived and is reestablishing... I'm going to try my first fruit tree graft soon but I also want to make sure I keep this one around... it's the only one that grows HUGE peaches that are almost golden .. the best I've had frankly. It must be lower in chill requirements because it fruited as many or more years than the others... I like it better than red haven which just fills up with jelly and falls apart here... that is the one I lost onmy had peaches one year you almost have to build a scaffold for it..

I think the variety is 'Honey-O" but I cant find any information about it!

Anyhow I'll be putting scions up for sale soon but also if someone wants some and will mail me back a successful graft or two I'm interested in that type of trade I'm around Dallas Tx... if you know about the variety please share too it's really the better of every peach I've tried Extremely Juicy, the perfect acidity - A Huge golden sugar bomb... they're so good...

I think I remember a tiny amount of red to the skin occasionally i was happy to find a lower branch that put on a few feet and I have several scions a few feet higher that I need to trim very soon.

If interested just let me know!

Thank you for the reply Steve.. they do look close but where they are off is that they look shorter/squattier than the pears I picked which also had no russet at all... also they were solid green no red streaks all 4 of them I recall how green they were

it could be the difference growing in shade they are almost directly under a large mulberry... also the necks were not as defined they taper down more than kieffer just enough to look more pear like but i dont remember as much of a curve.

Hopefully ill have more by late summer... the best one ripened quickly in the fridge (2 weeks) it was a huge one the smaller ones didnt ripen as well they may have been early... hopefully Moonglow does the trick ... were having more of a regular winter too with several freezes... fingers crossed

Hi everyone I'm fairly new but not to fruit... I thought I would check in about a pear tree that has been in ground here for 20 years... the label said Asian Pear and that's it. Was store bought around the time Kiefers were available regularly whoever supplied it probably farmed Kiefer pears too...

The pear itself is not Asian but appearance wise looks like a very large version of D'Anjou... but without the lemony/floral flavor. It's around my second favorite of all pears next to one labeled 'Bijou' that was bagged,with a strong regular pear flavor and a soft texture, very sweet... stays green as far as I know i was worried squirrels would get them so I picked in August I think since two out of 4 pears were enormous....

I cannot find information about Bijou anywhere they were smaller but maybe the same flavor... best I can guess is that maybe someone crossed a Bartlett with D'Anjou... the mystery pear is the same shape but more puffy/obese. A big fat incredible pear (they were fridge ripened in a paper bag, 2 weeks)

The tree i have removed leaders from maybe twice or 3x in all those years and she stays compact only around 15 feet at peak and probably not 6 feet across... I'm not sure if the tree was grafted... the leaves are the smaller type and numerous... not the prettiest not too ugly... good form branches like to grow upwards but that would probably change if I could find her a boyfriend

If anyone has any idea what they might be please let me know im propagating now... I thought maybe chill hours were the issue... I had no fruits all those years but a few that dropped but I believe the blooms are happening alot earlier than 3 Kiefers nearby. I think the uri storm changed their schedule and finally rewarded me with a sample...

Message me if you want to graft or propagate some i have many scion cuttings available for trade/sale

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions... I decided this year to plant a Moonglow and a Korean Giant... maybe that will tickle her fruits

I am in Dallas a zone 8 or maybe 7 area now. I have both a store bought that I believe to be Golden Delicous and either a root stock or seed grown in the same hole they both put on a few fruits. Originally the main tree (Golden) I thought was gone... i had chlorine tabs in a bucket with super clean water and thought it was just water.. so after some months i put gala seeds in the hole... I ended up with a gorgeous double fruit tree ... they haven't made alot of fruits yet, Dorsett would probably do better since it requires less chill hours but our climate has turned cooler over the winter and the summers have been staying below 100... the Gala type which may be my own "Improved Gala" produced only 1 apple the first year and then a few grew on both types this past year... I think some of it is blossom timing if i had another pollinator they might produce more...

I read that root stocks that go dormant sooner improve cold hardiness but I think most or all apples are cold hardy enough for here we just cant get production usually on the higher chill types and all apples need a pollinator... another one, a 5 in one tree I've had for probably a decade or longer has never bloomed at all! So maybe look into chill hour reqs there are maybe a few more low chill types and if you have 'lower' chill type you might have a chance to breed a new type in the years with enough chill. There are several types that only require around 400-600  and many at the 800 mark it just could take a few years longer for them to start blooming...

pears on the other hand you can pull off easier it's hard to beat a well ripened Kieffer and they seem to self pollinate well @ bumper crops almost every year while most pear types need a properly timed pollinator... I spent years picking them too early btw you should wait until they begin color change all the way to yellow, and then pick they dont ripen completely on the tree.. the grit turns to sugar spots when kieffer pears are ripened at room temp in groups... but I'm going to chance the Ambrosias if not for fruit quality,  to have columnar pollinators growing around my established trees