Well, my pear tree in the back garden had loads of blossom this year (the first time it's blossomed) and loads of baby pears. Unfortunately, they all turned black and are no more. Any idea what happened to them?
By contrast the pear tree in my front garden has quite a lot of good sized pears on it. The pear tree in the front garden is a Conference pear which came from a nursery about 5 years ago.
The tree in the back garden, I think is a Williams and was a bare root tree. It's much larger than it's counterpart but disappointed I lost all the pears for whatever reason.
Tiny pears turning black is usually frost damage. Sorry your pears got affected. :BangHead:
It may also be pear midge though. There are loads about this year in the Sheffield area. My friend lost all his pears. I guess the winter, or the spring weather was very much to their liking. Open up the black pears and look for tiny white maggots. If this is the problem, you should avoid letting the pears fall around the tree, or you will be primed ready for a repeat performance next year.
My pears are ok this year, but lot of my apples got touched with frost.. :BangHead:...so not that many to munch through at all.
Oh well..can't have it all...nature give and nature takes...ying yang and all that...
Pear midge is interesting. Unfortunately, all the tiny pears disappeared so could well be frost damage as the tree in the front garden blossomed later than the one at the back.
A few years ago my neighbour two doors along had an apple tree which always produced an abundance of fruit. About 2 years ago it blossomed, had small apples on it, maybe about 3/4 inch in diameter. He went on holiday, came back to find not one apple on the tree.
Even to this day he still doesn't know what happened to them. He cut the tree down but has another fruit tree now.
Could be pear rust. My trees had that the other year and all the fruit went black and fell off. It was fine one week, all gone the next, with pretty much all the leaves showing orange circles. You're supposed to remove all the infected leaves and destroy them, but I didn't because there were too many and the trees are very tall so it was impossible.
They got rust again last year, but it wasn't so bad and the fruit was okay.
Have a look for orange patches on the leaves.
Went out to look at my pear trees yesterday and they are bare. :( Sure enough, the weeks of wet weather we've had have brought the rust on, and again pretty much every single leaf is infected.