Y’all. I have planted so many sticks in the last couple days. Haha!
@XanHart nice!!! one of my two pears is struggling with blight. The other is a moonglow, which is disease resistant and doing great.
I’m excited about the moon glow. How old is your tree?
@XanHart three years old I think. I got it from Stark Bros and it has done fabulously. My cherry suddenly died after the first year...it was very weird. I suspect the blight pear is going to have to be replaced after this year. It is not doing well.
Starkbros is bae fersher.
I bought a honey sweet pear that got the blight last year.
They are in their growing phase so I’m not worried about fruiting yet. But. I hope it gets some height.
@XanHart if the blight doesn't kill this pear...I probably will with all the pruning of the blighted limbs.
Well my extension office says moonglow and honeysweet have moderate resistance.
Rip my bartlet though.
@XanHart I feel like every pear that Stark Bros listed as a pollinator for the Moonglow was susceptible but I need to go review. If I can find a pollinator for it that is disease resistant, I'll replace Blighty McBlight Pear
@XanHart FWIW I have moonglow and honeysweet....now I wonder which one is actually sick..
Best there is is moderate resistant. Looks like Seckle pollinates with moonglow.
@XanHart in your opinion is it worth trying to save the blighty tree or is it a goner?
Well. From what I read. There is no cure, only control. Cryin shame but you might want to pull it and burn it.
But. I am not an expert. That’s @Kurtroedeger lol
@XanHart @Kurtroedeger maybe better to start over now than waste time trying to save it. stark bros has free ship today.
@Kurtroedeger @XanHart I would assume the new tree should be planted in a different location and the existing blight site should be abandoned for awhile?
@Kurtroedeger @XanHart Thank you both for the assistance this morning. I have ordered a replacement tree :)
@Foxthorn @XanHart
Its a tough call on saving the blighted ones. Is there a treatment for it? Probably, but sometimes that costs more than a new resistant tree.
It's not one to just toss in a rubbish heap, it needs to go to a landfill to help stop the spread.