Fire blight is a bacterial disease that affects a number of fruit trees. ... Instead of healthy young stems, our newly acquired pear tree looked like it was being scorched by extreme heat.

Now, to make things even easier, you can choose a pear variety that resists fire blight. Disease resistant fruiting pears: Ayers, Harrow, Delight, Harvest Queen, Moonlow, Orient, and Warren. Plant ...

If you find sticky, amber-colored droplets on your pear tree, your tree could be infected with fire pear blight, a bacterial disease caused by Erwinia amylovora. Unfortunately, this pathogen can ...

Flowering pear trees are popular in home landscaping, and a single neighborhood could have dozens of affected trees. Beckerman said afflicted trees might not have been properly pruned to remove fire ...

The Bradford pear tree in our front yard has not been looking good this year. Some sections of the tree appear to have died, and the bark is coming off of large sections of the trunk. It also lost … ...

Fire blight needs warm temperatures and moisture to infect the flowers of the tree. There is not a lot we can do about warm temperatures during the spring, but you can try and control humidity.

Apples, pears, crabapples and even some ornamentals are infected by fire blight, a destructive bacterial disease. Fire blight damage is noticeable when infected leaves suddenly turn brown, as if ...

Q: My pear tree looks terrible. Almost every branch tip is dead and drooping. It flowered beautifully, but now there is no fruit. What is going on and what should I do to stop it?

Your beloved apple tree had blackening blossoms in spring and this fall you see black shoots. The ornamental pear tree on your street has browning shoots. The quince tree in your aunt’s backyard ...

Srdjan Acimovic, an assistant professor at Virginia Tech University, shaves away bark to examine the spread of fire blight in a pear tree branch at Oregon State University’s Southern Oregon ...

Fire blight is the most common pear disease, and isn't curable. An infected tree often dies within a couple of years unless you intervene to control the problem.

Callery pear tree seeds were brought to the U.S. from China in 1916 to help breeders create fruit-bearing pear trees more resistant to fire blight, a disease that destroys leaves and fruit ...