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Pear tree - not even flowers

Sandra ASandra A Posts: 146
in Problem solving
Hello, need expert advice. I have a pear tree in a very big container, and I imagine that it should have around 4 or 5 years. The last 2 Springs it had flowers, but then we had snow suddenly and it would lose all the flowers. This time I wanted to avoid so I have put up a frame with a cover of transparent plastic. Well, no snow, no frosts... and no flowers. I have checked the list of things that may caused this, but I did not prune heavily, since I have just cut a few branches, I do not have an excess of feeding, it doesn't lack water, it is positioned in a ideal place with Sun and sheltered from winds. So, if in the last 2 Springs it had loads of flowers... why did it went quiet on flowers?
I do not know what type of pear tree is, though.
Thank you for any advice.

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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    yes, pic please, presumably its quite small, did it really need pruning, their blossom is very suseptable to frost, did it get polinators..I find our pears, and apples, which are considerably older and probably larger, dont get many flowers the year following a hard prune.
  • Sandra ASandra A Posts: 146
    Finally, I have managed to take a photo 

  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but by pruning it so hard you have stopped it being able to flower. Although you think that is a large container it is too small for a pear tree which needs to be in the ground. Pear trees are naturally large trees so it won't ever be happy in a small container. Plant it in the garden and give it room to grow, take it easy with any pruning if needed and let it do its thing.
  • Sandra ASandra A Posts: 146
    steephill said:
    Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but by pruning it so hard you have stopped it being able to flower. Although you think that is a large container it is too small for a pear tree which needs to be in the ground. Pear trees are naturally large trees so it won't ever be happy in a small container. Plant it in the garden and give it room to grow, take it easy with any pruning if needed and let it do its thing.
    Thank you for this, I had no idea that I was pruning too much, I have cut exactly 20 cm from the 3 main branches and 5 cm of the smaller ones. I can change the container, but cannot plant it in the garden because it is not my house, I am just renting for the moment.
    The tree was not very big, I went back to my records and I bought it very small, with just a bare thin trunk, but last year the leaves had black spots and I decided to cut a bit because I thought it was some kind of disease.
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