MORE pear thinning

parker pears


17 more parker removed - 39 remain
12 more luscious removed - 26 remain

this time i thinned to 6" between each pear.

i still think i need to thin the luscious more. think the parker might be ok now.

with all i've taken off the parker tree, it looks like the tree had closer to 218 pears to start with rather than the 179 i thought i counted. its HARD counting the pears on the trees.

the luscious tree was closer. i thought i had around 65 to start with, looks like it might have been 79 or so.


parker pear tree


summercrisp pear tree


summercrisp pears


patten pear tree


patten pear


luscious pear


nylons and rocks are working well as weights on the branches of the luscious pear tree


the same tree last year. this tree in particular seems bound and determined to be as vertical and crowded as possible.