Late Pears from Wildlife Group

[H20fwler]

Here is one of my Gate pears mid summer this past year, it's been the first of my WG pears to try and fruit. All of mine were 3'-5' bare root when I planted them and I've got a lot of clay in my soil. All mine are growing really well.

 

[Native Hunter]

That is impressive. Probably not the same results I will see in my medium clay soil but a man can always dream.

I fell I'm in a good area for growing pears. We get great vegetative growth, and supermarket quality fruit with no spraying. That includes very little if any insect damage - even Japanese Beetles don't bother them. That's not true at all for apples. Even if you find apple cultivars that are able to handle the disease issues, you will still generally have some insect damage on part of the crop. However, I love growing both, and a bad year for one may be a good year for the other.

 

[Catscratch]

Southern boarder of KS... 6a. I planted 3 pears from Wildlife Group in 2015. None have produced yet but they are growing like crazy.

 

[Rit]

Here is one of my Gate pears mid summer this past year, it's been the first of my WG pears to try and fruit. All of mine were 3'-5' bare root when I planted them and I've got a lot of clay in my soil. All mine are growing really well.

I am worried about the drainage. My destination spot isn’t all that well drained in areas. I didn’t select this location it was just the only open area that I have to create. It was a hayfield for almost 25 years.

I planted two Kieffer from TY-TY nursery last year. They arrived in awful condition, with almost no roots and really beat up. I was so mad I didn’t even bother to call them. I babied them all summer. They rooted and put leaves on. I got them ultra cheap so I am only out a growing season. A buck worked one over but it wasn’t killed. This gave me hope that pears will grow in the field. We will see how they do this year.

 

[H20fwler]

I am worried about the drainage. My destination spot isn’t all that well drained in areas. I didn’t select this location it was just the only open area that I have to create. It was a hayfield for almost 25 years.

I planted two Kieffer from TY-TY nursery last year. They arrived in awful condition, with almost no roots and really beat up. I was so mad I didn’t even bother to call them. I babied them all summer. They rooted and put leaves on. I got them ultra cheap so I am only out a growing season. A buck worked one over but it wasn’t killed. This gave me hope that pears will grow in the field. We will see how they do this year.

Definitely need to screen and cage them, like Native said the jap beetles don't seem to bother pears here much either while they are destroying everything else.
The bulk of my pear trees are planted on an old homestead site with the rest planted along woods in a well established CRP strip all planted in clay to clay loam none of it tiled and are thriving.
Kieffer is one of my best producers so far and one of my favorite eating pears I have six or seven of them planted and once started they should produce every year if we don't get a late frost, they are a good bow season pear ripening in our area mid October and they hang well for a few weeks. One of the best growers here in NW Ohio is Bartlett for some reason, it isn't as DR as other pears but I haven't ever had or seen any issues in my area with them..they are very common around old farm sites they are more of a mid September pear. One more that grows really good here is Ayers and it is very DR.

As long as you don't have standing water for more than a few days you should be OK.
Good luck with your pear trees!

 

[TreeDaddy]

I have the complete package of 30 bare root fruit trees coming 1/25

Plan is to plant and tube them in a 0.5 acre orchard

Will convert to cages after last threat of frost

Also will install drip irrigation to enhance survival through texas summer heat

bill

 

[Jordan Selsor]

I have the complete package of 30 bare root fruit trees coming 1/25

Plan is to plant and tube them in a 0.5 acre orchard

Will convert to cages after last threat of frost

Also will install drip irrigation to enhance survival through texas summer heat

bill

Awesome! Can’t go wrong with wildlife groups stuff! I’d check with Allen about getting b118 or mm111 rootstock in your apples.

 

[Boone]

I've never ordered from WG. I'm in west central Wi. Has anyone had good luck with their apples in my area? I'm looking to get 6-8 apple/crabapple for spring. Prefer b118 or m111.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

H20 - Thanks for the info on your Kieffers. ( post #25 ) Since you and my camp aren't too terribly far apart climate & soil-wise, that gives me some idea of what to expect from our Kieffer pears. We have clayish-loam soil too.