Pears Are "Cracking"! HELP!

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Echo4u Bulls Gap, TN(Zone 6a) Jul 12, 2008

My old-fashioned pear tree (probably a Bartlett) put on a lot of fruit this year...about 50% of it looks great...and the other 50% looks like the photo. The cracks are not wet or oozing. They are dry to the touch...the pear is still hard, and there is no odor of rotting fruit. No possible culprits are visible and I have sprayed on schedule. I'm afraid that these damaged pears are going to attract the recently emerged Junebugs and a host of others. Can anyone help me with identification and the small hope of protecting the remainder of "healthy" pears? Thanks for any advice you can offer.
Laura

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scottfsmith Baltimore, MD Jul 12, 2008

Echo, fruit usually cracks because it had too little water and then it gets drenched and the excess water splits the skins since the fruit grows too fast. I had half the apricots on one of my trees split a few days ago. There isn't much to do about it, other than varieties splitting every year should be removed.

Scott

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Echo4u Bulls Gap, TN(Zone 6a) Jul 12, 2008

Thank you Scott.
If i water the pear tree on a regular basis for the rest of the growing season...do you suppose I can save the rest of the pears?

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scottfsmith Baltimore, MD Jul 13, 2008

I have found fruit cracking to be a very uncommon event so it probably will not happen again this summer.. but that is just based on my experience. I never had an apricot crack until a week ago -- I think a lot of heavy rains came through after a period of relative dryness, and you may have gotten the same.

Scott

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Imred Anna, IL Jul 31, 2008

We just had a lot of rain, thank the Lord, but it did cause my Starks Delicious plums and my Santa Rosas to crack. How are your pears doing? Are they still cracking?
RED

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