Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: Sleepingpopman on April 15, 2018, 22:01
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Hello folks :) We bought 3 patio fruit trees, a Red & a Green apple & a pear about 3 years ago & put them huge tubs, for the last 2 years all 3 have blossomed & the 2 apples have fruited but not the pear. We have just had our garden altered & now have the perfect place to put them in the ground. Q1. Is it too late to transplant now ? Q2. If we do will we loose this years fruit ? Q3. Any idea why the pear isn't fruiting ?
Keith/Sharon
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What type of pear is it? A lot of pear species are not self fertile and are less common that apple trees so that could be the problem
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PS I think normally you only move fruit trees when they are dormant so if you do then you will lose the fruit.
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I've had a pear for 5 years now. It's only in the last two years that it's started to flower and last year we got a tiny pear. Pear's take a few years to get established enough to even flower apparently. Can't remember where I got this info from but it was when I was threatening my little tree with the chop if it didn't get it's act together.
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many thank's for your replies about our problem patio pear tree ;). londongardener the label say's it's a Lillyput, can't find anything about it anywhere :( , We did think it was not a good idea to move now but we thought we would ask. & Debz the tree came into FULL bloom last year when it was 4 years old (no fruit) & it looks like it's going to be full of bloom again this year :nowink:
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many thank's for your replies about our problem patio pear tree ;). londongardener the label say's it's a Lillyput, can't find anything about it anywhere :( , We did think it was not a good idea to move now but we thought we would ask. & Debz the tree came into FULL bloom last year when it was 4 years old (no fruit) & it looks like it's going to be full of bloom again this year :nowink:
It is self fertile according to this
https://www.jparkers.co.uk/pear-lilliput-0001164c
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From another website
Normally, lack of cropping would imply that the soil is very fertile and tree is growing rapidly while the growing is good!
5-10 years for a dwarf pear to start cropping is not uncommon.
If the tree is growing strongly and you want fruit rather than growth, then I suggest:
1. Stop feeding.
2. Stop watering, unless it starts to really suffer in a severe drought.
3. Consider a hard prune of all the young green shoots in July-August, back to about two inches. It might be a bit late now to have an effect for next year. Don't cut into older wood while summer pruning - only young wood.