Good Result With Pear Tree.

I planted a Beurre Hardy Pear Tree some 7 years ago.
I fed it on a regular basis on Grow-Sure and 2 or 3 other products over the years with no great return of fruit produce.
The most fruit the tree produced in one season was 6 pears..
The end of last year I decided to give the tree a good hair cut as previous years I was only pruning the tree of long spindly branches.

I had a think to myself,' I think I am feeding this tree to grow more foliage,it's getting taller, over 10 ft high and loads of branches and leaves,very little fruit'.

I made the decision to cut from the canopy of the tree 4 ft, to let the sun and light come through to all the branches of the tree,from top to bottom, great result.

This year there is an abundance of young fruit from the top to the bottom of the tree, not 6 young pears, more like 60..

So my decision has been the correct one, thank God,
If it hadn't worked I think the Wife would have cut something off me,

for cutting 4 ft off her Pear Tree..

 

Excellent result @music

I know the year I took the loppers and hand saw to my apple tree it rewarded me with masses of fruit. Hard fruit trees do seem to like a good crew cut rather than a delicate trim.

Now .. what on earth will you do with all those lovely pears!?

 

Hi "M". My son in law makes excellent pear wine. so we will be dancing around the tree.

 

I've heard of pear cider, but never pear wine - sounds lovely .. just don't do the tree naked (neighbours and all that )