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Bazile | 18:22 Tue 20th Oct 2020 | Home & Garden
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We planted a pear tree - a sampling - earlier this year - around the first quarter

No signs of life so far

Do you think it's to early to write it off ?
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Ours produced nothing the first year .. 4 pears the next year. Then about 20 and this year (the 4th) absolutely loads.
scratch a TINY bit off one of the twigs or off the trunk. If its greenish underneath its alive, if its brownish its dead....yu can also go out on a cool night and hold a branch. A cold branch has sap in it, a warm ones is dead.
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Thing is ,it just looks like a dried up stick , no signs of live
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"life' , even
Bazile that's why you do the scratch test.
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sorry woof - I didn't see your post
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We also planted an apple tree a good few years ago .

Now we have to support it because it's leaning right over .
However each year it produces tons of fruit
Maybe I should try that scratch test on the fig "tree" that I planted last year. But I'm sure it gave up during, or just after, winter. (Only 1 of 3 blueberry bushes decided to stick around too. Most disheartening.)
Og if you are going to scratch test a fig then don’t use your fingernail and keep the sap off your hands. Fig sap can burn your skin.
I did the scratch test on a date once...



She slapped my face!
If it's gone through a spring and summer with no leaves, must be a dead twig.
maybe not chip, it can happen that a tree or shrub will stay dormant for a year then shoot

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