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pear crossed with apple

paulus100863rRoym9bIpaulus100863rRoym9bI Posts: 3
in Fruit & veg
ive accidentally crossed a conference pear with a golden delicious apple to produce a succulent sweet and juicy fruit has anybody heard of this before
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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    How can you 'accidentally' cross two plants and yet know what it was you crossed?


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Nashi.  Delicious!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    A Papple, is I believe a thing.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Think someone might be telling a tall tale here :wink:
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I've no idea whether the OP has done it, but it is a thing.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    punkdoc said:
    A Papple, is I believe a thing.
    But it’s not an Apple x Pear 

    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/may/21/the-papple-tasted-and-tested

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





  • RedwingRedwing Posts: 1,511
    Asian pears are firm, crisp and apple shaped but have the flavour of pear.
    Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    You are of course correct, @Dovefromabove, but doing some minimal research, I see that it is theoretically possible to cross an Apple and a Pear, but I can't find any record of it having been done.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • paulus100863rRoym9bIpaulus100863rRoym9bI Posts: 3
    nutcutlet said:
    How can you 'accidentally' cross two plants and yet know what it was you crossed?
    nutcutlet I have a conference pear tree in very close proximity to a golden delicious apple tree which must have cross polinated the fruit is very nice, has a taste of a french  golden delicious with the smooth texture of a pear and would imagine would make a very nice cider, my knowledge of gardening is very limited and it is only on one branch of the pear tree which is actually touched by a branch from the apple tree that actually bears this fruit the rest of the tree is purely conference pears  
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2022
    I'm afraid that's not how cross-pollination works ... even if the trees had cross-pollinated one another, it could not affect the fruit of the existing trees. 

    The genes would only be passed on to the tree that would result from planting the seed from the cross-pollinated fruit.  

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





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