Comice European Pear

Over 10 years ago, I planted a Raintree Comice in proximity to well producing Bartlett and Seckel trees. They all flower at approx the same time, but the Comice has rarely produced fruit, and has only brought 3 pears to maturity. Coop Extensions all state that the Comice should pollinate from the Bartlett and Seckel. The Comice's is generally healthy, but not growing as well as the other trees.

I received a Comice bare root tree in 2024. It appeared healthy and good size. However, upon leafing out it was apparent that it was infested with blister mite. It is my understanding that this overwinters in the buds.

Ordered 6 trees, 4 apple, 2 Pear. This pear had significantly smaller root structure and some damage during shipping/packing with the other trees. Roughly speaking it had about half the roots of the other trees, and a large main section was snapped upon unboxing. All the trees were pruned back to 4 shortened branches and a shortened main stem. All 4 apples took with strong growth. Both pear trees seem stunted, our other warren pear has some minimal growth compared to the apples but is doing well and healthy. Our Comice pear is unlikely to survive, there has been no new growth and most of the leaves are shriveling up and falling off. I regret not taking a picture of the root stock, at the time I figured it was normal yet very visibly worse condition than the other trees we received. This will likely put me a year behind as the tree is unable to survive the long summer days with such a damaged roots.
Raintree's guarantee is that the tree will produce leaves not that it will survives... Well our tree had just enough life to produce leaves but unable to actually survive the longer summer days with such small roots. I will hopefully update this review if our tree manages to survive the summer. I can only hope that despite the leaves, some roots are growing and it can recover.

My pear tree is small, which I expected. It is, however nice and straight and husky. Satisfied.