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| About 4 or 5 years ago I decided to cut down an old pear tree that was mostly dead and in the way of a new garden plot. Since I didn't dig up the trunk it came right back with four trunks and is now 15ft tall. It's still producing blossoms but they aren't setting fruit. BTW, a companion pear tree looks as bad as this one used to, but is still producing. I'll probably trim it heavily after this season. So, do you think this new/old tree will ever set fruit again? It's shading too much of the garden again, but I'm inclined to let it live since it wants to so badly, provided it produces again some day. |
This post was edited by mecdave on Mon, May 26, 14 at 19:50
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| Those sprouts are probably just the rootstock not the variety you were used to. If so it will never produce edible fruit. |
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| Thanks fruitnut. I hadn't thought about grafts and rootstock. Looking at the other tree (also 30 -45 years old) it's hard to tell where the graft was, assuming there was one. It also has multiple trunks, though I know it hasn't been trimmed/cut down in the last 28 yrs. Maybe I'll let the new/old one go another year and see what happens. |
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| How high from the ground does the growth begin? |
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| About 6" - 8". On the un-cut and producing tree it's about a foot. |
This post was edited by mecdave on Wed, May 28, 14 at 7:33
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