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Pears · Dave Wilson Nursery
Flordahome Pear
Pyrus communis ‘Flordahome’A low-chill European-type pear with sweet, smooth, juicy fruit and early bloom for warm-winter regions.
2 varieties
- Chill hours
- Less than 400 hours
- Harvest
- Early summer in warm climates
- Pollination
- Partly self-fruitful; a compatible low-chill pear improves production
- Mature size
- Usually 10–20 ft with annual pruning; rootstock determines ultimate size
Our pick for most gardens
5/8 inch caliperA well-built tree with real branching. The usual pick when you want it to look like a tree the day it goes in.
$30
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| Variety | Harvest | Chill hours | Pollination | Mature size | Grown | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A low-chill European-type pear with sweet, smooth, juicy fruit and early bloom for warm-winter regions. | Early summer in warm climates | Less than 400 hours | Partly self-fruitful; a compatible low-chill pear improves production | Usually 10–20 ft with annual pruning; rootstock determines ultimate size | 125 | $30 |
| A dependable heat-tolerant pear with good fire-blight resistance and firm, coarse-textured fruit suited to cooking and canning. | Late summer to fall | About 350 hours | Self-fruitful; another pear can improve set | Usually 10–20 ft with annual pruning; rootstock determines ultimate size | 240 | $29 |
Counts are what the nursery is growing right now, across every trunk size.
Where this tree sits
The seven layers of a food forest
Lower canopy
Fruit trees kept below the tall ones. Most of this year's programme lives here, held to eight or ten feet by summer pruning.
Pears sit in this layer.