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Pear tree issue, or not?

rhoadstrhoadst Posts: 2
in Fruit & veg
In the image you see a third year Dixie Delight pear tree. An overhanging limb fell and broke the original main leader (at the arrow) at the end of last season.  As you see, a lower limb became dominant this year. It is now 6 ft long with no branches. Will the tree mature properly like this? Will this "new main leader" branch? Should I leave it alone, cut it, other? Thanks for any suggestions

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    If it's anything like my young Concorde pear which I've trained as an espalier, I train a new branch upwards one year and it develops side branches in the following year.  I think yours will be ok.

    Good luck  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • rhoadstrhoadst Posts: 2
    The central leader is bare, 6 feet with no side branches. Topping it (and perhaps another of the longest branches) to motivate branching would be a bad idea?
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