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Asian Pear Trees - Frost Protection Exhibit

Asian Pear tree: Our pear trees produced heavily after they were hit by frosts.  Spray our microbe tea on plants before bud break to protect them from late frosts.

This exhibit illustrates how a single application of Natures Own Growing System Microbe Tea sprayed onto the plants once before bud break will protect blossoms from late frosts.  1/2 cup Yucca Extract was added to every 5 gallons of diluted Microbe Tea mixture.  The diluted tea was then sprayed on the trees before bud break.  Late frosts had very little effect upon the blossoms or fruit set.

Our BioVam and Natures Own Growing System Tea Brewer products provide the soil life which transform nutrients into a form best utilized by your plants.  Our Biosol Mix,  Planters II, Lime, Calphos (soft rock phosphate), and gypsum fertilizers provide plant nutrient sources for that soil life.  When that kind of system is put into action in your gardening efforts, higher yields and quality can be expected from your fruit trees.

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Asian pears comprise a large group of pears that are crisp in texture and, when mature, are good to eat as soon as harvested or for several months after picking if held in cold storage. This ready-to-eat feature may make them more acceptable to some people than European pears that are usually served when soft and juicy, which takes about a week to occur after removal from cold storage. Asian pears  do not change texture after picking or storage as do European pears such as Bartlett or Comice.

 

We had frost every night for 7 days and these early morning pictures show leaves and blossoms iced up.  This amount of frost generally causes blossoms to turn black and drop.  No fruit would set.  Many people had no fruit this year (2004) because of these frosts.

Frost Picture 1.  Click on picture to see a larger version with more detail.

Frost Picture 2.  Click on picture to see a larger version with more detail.

Frost Picture 3.  Click on picture to see a larger version with more detail.

After a week of frosts every night for 7 days, the blossoms are doing well.

After a week of frosts every night for seven days, very few blossoms turned black and dropped to the ground.  These are all in good condition and fruit set was very good.

Asian pears comprise a large group of pears that are crisp in texture and, when mature, are good to eat as soon as harvested or for several months after picking if held in cold storage. This ready-to-eat feature may make them more acceptable to some people than European pears that are usually served when soft and juicy, which condition takes about a week to occur after removal from cold storage. Asian pears do not change texture after picking or storage as do European pears such as 'Bartlett' or 'Comice'. Often Asian pears are called apple pears because they are crisp and juicy like apples but with a different and distinctive texture. They also are called salad pears, Nashi (Japanese for "pear"), Oriental, Chinese or Japanese pears (Nihonnashi). All Asian pears today are selected seedlings or crosses made within Pyrus serotina.

The poles are to hold up the branches so they didn't break.  This tree was in full bloom when two late, hard frosts occurred.  The frosts had no affect upon the tree.  A few blossoms were brown at the edges, but no blossoms fell as a result of the frosts.  None of our friends had pears this year (2002) due to those two late hard frosts.

All Asian pear cultivars will grow on Pyrus betulaefolia, P. calleryana, P. serotina, P. ussuriensis and P. communis (seedlings of Bartlett, 'Old Home' x 'Farmingdale" or 'Winter Nelis) rootstocks. Usually P. betulaefolia is preferred for its vigor, large fruit and tolerance of wet soils. Its cold-hardiness varies with seed source. All rootstocks are satisfactory in California and the warmer winter areas of Oregon, but in Washington special cold-hardy P. betulaefolia strains are needed. Most Japanese pear cultivars are dwarfed about 50% on P. communis rootstock so California growers and nurseries prefer P. betulaefolia because they like vigorous trees that size fruit easily Chinese Asian pear cultivars such as 'Ya Li' are compatible and grow well on either P. communis or P. betulaefolia rootstock. In Japan, Asian pears are all propagated on P. serotina or P. betulaefolia. P. betulaefolia is used to prevent hard-end, a problem in some areas where P. serotina is used as a rootstock for Japanese pears. P. serotina or P. ussuriensis are cold-hardy to -40deg.F and could be used as an Asian pear rootstock for all West Coast fruit districts if a good seed source was available to nurseries. P. calleryana makes a fair Asian pear rootstock in California but lacks winter hardiness for most areas outside of California.

We didn't thin the fruit on this tree because we wanted to see how the tree would produce.  Thinning would have resulted in larger sized fruit.  We had no insect or disease problems with the fruit or leaves.  No preventative pesticides were applied to the tree.
How to:  

We amended the clay soil where the tree was planted with a bag of inexpensive potting soil.  One cup of Planters II trace mineral fertilizer and two cups of Biosol Mix 7-2-3 organic fertilizer was also mixed into the soil.  A tablespoon of BioVam was applied to moistened plant roots.  As soon as the snow melted, we sprayed the tree and the soil around the tree with Natures Own Growing System Tea once a week.  We applied 1/2 cup of unpreserved Yucca extract to the tea.  A quart of Natures Own Growing System Tea + the Yucca was applied to everything in 2,000 square feet... including our two pear trees.  Some of the leaves were torn by hail storms.  No damage was found from insects or diseases. 

 


Natural Organic Products that Work!

Our Affordable Gardening Supply Products, which we call Natures Own Growing System, include Product Brochures, BioVam Mycorrhiza, Biosol Mix 7-2-3 Organic Fertilizer, Planters II Trace Mineral Fertilizer, Yucca Extract, Microbe Tea Brewing Kits, Pre-Brewed Microbe Tea, Bio-Peat moss and mushroom compost, Zeolite, Organic White Gold Bar Soaps, Just Like Sugar Natural Sweetener, and Spider Elimination Kits (spider traps). Most of these products are used to grow high brix plants which are high in plant nutrients (mineral and vitamin) content.

People interested in these products are back yard gardeners, farmers, farm crop management, flower growers, home and garden supply companies, house plant growers, landscapers, lawn care companies, plant nursery owners, organic farming, organic gardening, urban gardeners, and those who wish to pursue container gardening methods. Those interested in bettering their diets and health use our products to grow highly nutritious foods. 

The application of these products supports agriculture soil in general but has many specific applications on this web site for arborvitae, artichokes and asparagus, apple trees, asparagus fern, black leaf fungus on quaking aspen trees, bulbs and flowers, cactus, celery, chard, chrysanthemum, citrus trees, cotton, cosmos, cucumbers, eggplants, fairy rings in lawns, frost protection on Asian pear fruit trees, garlic, growing fruit trees, herbs, lettuce, maple trees, melons, necrotic ring spots in lawns, onions, pansy, peas, pears, promotion of earthworms in the soils, potatoes, pumpkins, raspberries, radishes, red hot chili peppers, rose plants, turf grass management of blue grass and all other kinds of grasses, spinach, stone fruit, strawberries, sugar cane, tomatoes, wine grape, vine and vineyard management, zucchini and squash of all kinds, many different vegetables and several thousand other specific plants - virtually everything grown on farms and in gardens aimed at plant and root enhancement. Numerous pictures are present in a variety of exhibits.

Contained in these products are soil life forms that are often found in some compost tea brewing kits but are much more effective in our BioVam Mycorrhiza product and our Microbe Tea Brewing kits. Organisms like, mycorrhiza fungi (endomycorrhiza fungi and ectomycorrhiza fungi), nitrogen fixing bacteria, phosphorous solubalizing bacteria, and bacteria that out compete plant pathogens are found in our BioVam product. Nitrogen fixing bacteria, cellulose eating trichoderma fungi, and many beneficial soil organisms are found in our Microbe Tea Brewing Kits.