Re: Inedible Pear
- To: K*@aol.com
- Subject: Re: Inedible Pear
- From: M* F*
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:47:34 -1000 (HST)
Yes this is the exact case with the runaway bonsai my inlaws have. Hard
to eat lots of grit/stones. Even fruit flies seem to have problems
withthis one.
MTF
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 K1MIZE@aol.com wrote:
> <The fruit is more pear shaped than apple
> like, yellow with an occasional pink blush. The big problem is that the
> fruit is as hard as a rock and never ripens, whether I pick it or leave it
> on the tree. If I pick it, after a month or two, suddenly it turns to
> mush.>
>
> My brother used to live in a house that had a pear tree with fruit similar to
> the one you describe. I believe it was simply a 'wild-type' pear that had
> originally been the rootstock for an edible cultivar. As is the case with
> many grafted fruit trees, rootstocks will throw up suckers, and if not
> constantly kept in check, the usually-more-vigorous rootstocks will
> eventually overpower the graft. I believe that is what happened with my
> brother's tree, and perhaps that is what happened in your case. Around here,
> English walnuts are grafted onto black walnut stock, and old, neglected
> English walnut orchards quickly revert to orchards of black walnut.
>
> Kurt Mize
> Stockton, California
> USDA Zone 9
>
