Summer Pruning Tennosui Pear Tree

Описание: In the video I began the process of summer pruning my Tennosui pear tree which was finishing up its season. I wasn't able to finish the project during the video because the thunder and lightning from a nearby pop-up storm started happening too close. I did finish later that afternoon when the little thunderhead passed us by without giving us any rain.

In the video I discussed how I had just discovered that some deformities in ripened fruit turned out to be cedar-apple rust. The symptoms came on late that I didn't recognize it until the spore producing reproduction structures on a ripe pear for the first time today. In the video I mentioned that cedar-apple rust pressure is super low on my property because there aren't any juniper or red cedar trees nearby. In the video I concluded that Tennosui must be exceptionally susceptible to cedar-apple rust to get it like that on my property. Still, it was quite the puzzle in my mind. I also remembered that I removed quite a bit of deformed fruit from my Korean Giant. It has now occurred to me that the damaged Korean Giant fruit was also infected with cedar-apple rust.

I've since realized where the rust came from and why it was so late appearing. I used to get a tiny bit of rust on my LeConte tree. I'm talking one or two pears every other year. That was on account of a red cedar that was around 300 yards away from my property. That tree got removed when they cleared for the apartment complex they are building across the retention pond from my property. With that tree gone, there shouldn't be any rust on my property, and there is no sign of it on my LeConte this year.

Well, this is what I've figured out. A landscaping company ripped up a bunch of ornamental junipers from a shrubbery bed somewhere and illegally dumped that shrubbery in the retention pond area across the street. It took the City of Statesboro about three weeks to get around to cleaning that mess up. That happened in May. That pile of junipers must be where the rust came from. That I'm not really noticing it until the fruit was ripening is because the exposure didn't happen until late in the season.

Still, I think Tennosui and Korean Giant must both be exceptionally susceptable to cedar-apple rust because I'm seeing zero symptoms any of my European type pears including LeConte. The LeConte tree was as close to that pile of Juniper debris as the Tennosui and much closer to it than the Korean Giant. Consequently, I stand by my assertion that I expect that cedar-apple rust will be a serious problem for Tennosui if there are lots of cedar or junipers of any sort near the orchard.