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Some pearvarieties take almost ten years to blossom... and maybe You're pruning it too hard. Another possibillity is, that You have the wrong rootstock. But when You have Doyenné du Comice, then You have a very difficult pear to get flowering and bearing fruit.
If You want a juicy, fragrant(muscat) and tastfull pear, that is flowering and bearing pears on two year old wood, choose a daughter/sun of Bartlett (Williams Christbirne) called Packhams' Triumph!
I also recommend this pear to older people, that want to be able to eat their own pears before they die.
(I regularly became that request/question)
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I didn't know that. They're Clapps Liebling und Gute Luise. Pruning hard comes more or less automatically with training on an espalier, doesn't it? So we just have to wait, it seems.
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#2 of 4 posted
27 MAY 12 by
 Jay-Jay
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Hard pruning promotes the growth of canes without blossombuds. I would recommend to read a book for this kind of training and pruning a fruit/pear-tree
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I think I read three already and in fact am re-reading them every spring before I even touch the shears. I find this kind of thing hard to learn from a book though. Fruit trees confuse me. Roses are so much simpler!
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#4 of 4 posted
27 MAY 12 by
Jay-Jay
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Then I would say: Plant a Packhams' Triumph or another climbing rose.
If You lived in the neighbourhood, I would be eager to show You or learn that kind of pruning to You in practice.
But since You don't live far from "Das Alte Land", You might take a look how they do it over there.
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