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Bluehill 2025

I ordered 6 pear and 10 persimmon from them. I'm going to test the limits of the hardiness zones they advertise. I hope the trees live and the deer like pears.

Time to buy some caging material.
 
I was tempted, but I already have a few persimmons coming and I've decided I have enough apples.
 
They don't have much for apples. It's mostly pear trees and some persimmon seedling bundles.
 
Last year I got trees from them for $20 and im close enough for pick up. If that was the deal this year I'd grab some more.
 
Telemark said:
I ordered 6 pear and 10 persimmon from them. I'm going to test the limits of the hardiness zones they advertise. I hope the trees live and the deer like pears.

Time to buy some caging material.
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Deer love pears. The pear trees I got this year were close to 1" caliper. It was impressive. No excuses, dig more holes. It might stink today, but you will be glad you did it in 5 years.
 
Is it possible to add a tree to an order? It won't even let me check out with one tree.
 
I'd order it for pick up and ask him to ship it with your existing order. You can call too.
 
Thanks, guys. I'll try to sort it out today.
 
I ordered two persimmon trees and left a note to add them to my other order. If I don't get an email from them in the next few hours I'll call them.
 
I already got an email correcting the date of my latest order from today to the date my original order should be shipped. They haven't changed the new order from pickup to my delivery address, but it seems like they known what they are doing, so I'll wait a week or so before I follow up. They're probably busy now, and my ship date isn't until May 1st.
 
I might grab some persimmons. I have a few seedlings that are some of the first trees I planted. Probably 6-7 years old now. But still have yet to flower so I'm not sure if they're male or female.
 
RGrizzzz said:
Deer love pears. The pear trees I got this year were close to 1" caliper. It was impressive. No excuses, dig more holes. It might stink today, but you will be glad you did it in 5 years.
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Yup, the Rifle Deer Pear I ordered was right around an inch in diameter. I have been planting pears from various nurseries for several years (mostly Kieffer, Ayers, and Bartlett) and have had very few pears produced until about year 6-10 depending on the cultivar. Which pears have you had that produce in 5 years?
 
Telemark said:
I ordered 6 pear and 10 persimmon from them. I'm going to test the limits of the hardiness zones they advertise. I hope the trees live and the deer like pears.

Time to buy some caging material.
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If you have bears, they like pears even more than deer do ..... and that's saying something. High sugar content is a magnet. We've been there.
 
Bowsnbucks said:
If you have bears, they like pears even more than deer do ..... and that's saying something. High sugar content is a magnet. We've been there.
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Yeah, I almost bought a roll of barbed wire on Marketplace. Nothing is producing fruit yet, but when it starts, I will have to do something to keep them away.

Ontario took away my ability to hunt bears, but I have some friends there who are bear hunters, so I might recruit a couple of them to go persecute the ones that come around.

I saw a post on here where someone put a tire in their tree with sharp nails sticking out to prevent the bears from climbing them. That might be an option.
 
Hoytvectrix said:
Yup, the Rifle Deer Pear I ordered was right around an inch in diameter. I have been planting pears from various nurseries for several years (mostly Kieffer, Ayers, and Bartlett) and have had very few pears produced until about year 6-10 depending on the cultivar. Which pears have you had that produce in 5 years?
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Cool , I planted a Winter Deer pear from BH last month and will probably plant a Rifle Deer pear someday. Now if you're asking for my fastest producing pear I would have to say my Rut Rage Pears from Whitetail crabs. Planted in 2023 and had a decent amount of pears in 2025. Below is a screenshot of the post I made last year. I know someone on here that says he didn't have pears on his Rut rage pears last year (planted the same year as mine).. I 'm pretty sure he said he doesn't water them except for at planting . I give all my newly planted trees 4 gallons of water at least twice a week when it doesn't rain , for the first year....If it's extremely hot like upper 90's and no rain in sight, I may water 3 times a week. Does it make my trees produce faster ?, I don't know ...but they do need water to grow . So if you have the time, watering twice a week probably cant hurtScreenshot (965).png
 
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