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The one you have in the picture above fits the description much better than the variety you mentioned in your latest post. Gallaway should be a late ripener and hold on the tree longer. Here it is compared to Kieffer:

I have 4 Gallaways but im waiting for them to fruit still (and the ones that do fruit to last until ripe). If it's not Gallaway, its possible its Gimer Christmas. I have one of those that fruited early after grafting but they dont last long on the tree.

Yes, I finished. To answer your question, I left about 16" of space. If it ever needed to be cut, it could be cut and replaced or run like you just mentioned but up against the house. Either way would work.

Hmm, that's interesting. I'll be happy to see if my Keener Seedling (and Yates), pears, and persimmons a couple hours north match up with you. I'm guessing I'm a few days or a week later.

Have you had problems with squirrels or raccoons eating apples before their ripe or before they fall from the tree? I cant get any fruit past July. I assume up to this point it was squirrels but this year many pears had broken branches out of reach. Im sure thats coons. Maybe with the volume of...

I haven't been able to get an apple or pear through July yet with squirrels and/or raccoons. Fortunately, the persimmons seem to make it at this early stage for me. I tried numerous persimmons at England's Orchard the past couple years. I still like Prok as one of the better ones. Every person...

You'll have to remind me when the time comes. At the moment, I havent seen a reason to recommend it but I still need some time to evaluate.

Is that Dr. Deer pear? What's the approximate size of the pears? I need to check mine to see if mine had any this year. Its been 3 years since mine last produced pears and they were very small.

I think Keener Seedling goes by Rusty Coat and is a late apple. Im guessing that's one and the same. Looking forward to your reports on Advent Pear. I just grafted 3 trees over to that one. Reports are it overbears but hopefully its a good one otherwise.

Looks like I had some fireblight on one of my Gate pears. It looks like it was confined to some of the current year growth. Same thing happened to one of my Moonglow pear trees. Others I check on seemed fine.

For some reason, they didn't have the optifade color in the fanatic bibs in stock or in my size until today. If you have another code, I'll fall behind Brian662 in order.

I planted about 30 pears in 2019, mostly from The Wildlife Group (and a few other places too). Late frosts have taken out all pears in a couple years and squirrels have cleared pear trees that did fruit. I may have gotten 1 or 2 pears to make it to August. I lost a Moonglow to what appeared to...

I think I'm in sync with what Telemark said. Everything is good now. I just wanted to make sure that if something were to happen with the drain clogging or needing to be replaced, I wouldn't have to tear the shed I'm going to build down. I think there would be some options though should...

That's a good point with a future outlook instead. If I ever needed access to that, the pipe could be cut at the corner, run a diagonal downspout up to just under the deck and up from there. For that reason, I wouldn't need access. I could just leave maybe 6 or 8 inches. There'd be room above a...

No, it's in the corner where a support post would be needed. My concern is if maybe the pipe or downspout needed to be replaced, there wouldn't be enough room to do it. I'm not sure if space would be needed though. A downspout might be able to be replaced from the deck above. There isn't any...