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Rotten leaves - pear tree

nab_babeXjybckganab_babeXjybckga Posts: 5
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Plz help me with an advice.
Please see pictures of leaves of Pear Tree.  From past few years all fruit (except 4 or 5 pears ) were going black and falling down. 
This year I put some food and more soil to the plant. Luckily no fruit gone black but look at the leaves. They have yellow spots and some of these are horribly black.
Please advice what can I do to save this plant.

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    The yellow marks are Pear Rust - Mine get it too - there are no treatments available.
    Make sure you pick up any leaves on the ground at the end of the season and put them in the waste bin - not on the compost.
    It's very unlikely to seriously harm you pear tree and the fruits should be fine.

    I can't see what the black things are

    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • nab_babeXjybckganab_babeXjybckga Posts: 5
    Thank you Pete
  • Green MagpieGreen Magpie Posts: 806
    I have this problem but much worse. I have discovered that pear rust is perpetuated by juniper growing nearby - the spores overwinter there and then reinfect the pear tree. I have two large creeping junipers near the pear tree and can't do anything about it. It's been getting worse year by year, until this year all the pear leaves are already rust and black, with no green at all, and no pears. The rust was quite pretty for a year or two but the whole tree looks hideous now. In the autumn I am planning to take off all the smaller branches and leave the trunk and main branches as a dead-wood feature -very on-trend, my gardener tells me - that I can use as a support for clematis etc. The gardener says we can ring-bark it to prevent regrowth. It is quite a small, cordon-grown tree and I think it will look OK. Sorry if this seems a drastic solution, but it's the best I can come up with!
  • nab_babeXjybckganab_babeXjybckga Posts: 5
    Thank you for such a detailed message, it is helpful and at least giving me option that what can I do about it, it is sad to see tree like this 
  • Green MagpieGreen Magpie Posts: 806
    Yours may be OK for a few years yet, don't give up on it if you're still getting fruit.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Pear Rust has been affecting my 3 trees for as long as they have been planted (20+ years.)  It has little if any effect on fruiting, which is more a lottery between frost and blossom.  It does look horrible, and if I had the choice again I would not have planted pears, which I have found are far too fussy (and I grow a Cox's Orange Pippin apple, so am used to 'difficult' fruit trees!)  I keep them now only for the blossom and view any fruit produced as simply a bonus.  Every time I walk by them with my pruning saw in hand, I do get the urge to use it, and probably will in the not-too-distant future! :D
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • nab_babeXjybckganab_babeXjybckga Posts: 5
    Thank you 😊
  • nab_babeXjybckganab_babeXjybckga Posts: 5
    Yes, it is so frustrated and I though same to cut it completely 😂
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