Plant two pear varieties for best pollination. The flowers of most pear varieties can't pollinate themselves. Instead, they must cross-pollinate with a different variety to develop fruit. A different ...

Hand pollination is a great way to get your fruit trees to produce better, more abundant harvests. It partly substitutes for natural pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and birds—which is ...

A Chile-based ag technology company says its liquid pollination system can lift fruit set in United States orchards by about ...

Q. I have an Asian pear that I planted several years ago but it has never fruited. This spring it had lots of blooms, but it still doesn’t look like it has set any fruit. Can you tell me what is wrong ...

Regardless, insect pollination remains essential for pollen movement and achieving economically viable yields of fruits with marketable size. To better understand this relationship between insect ...

When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...

Soap bubbles facilitated the pollination of a pear orchard by delivering pollen grains to targeted flowers, demonstrating that this whimsical technique can successfully pollinate fruit-bearing plants.

If you want to grow a pear tree that produces fruit indoors, then it’s best to choose dwarf varieties. “Avoid cultivars that ...

Don Kinzler answers questions about the best time to prune a rose bush and cross-pollination. He also gives a reader a recommendation for an evergreen tree that won't grow taller than 25 feet ...

After Northwest pear growers endured their worst harvest in nearly 40 years this fall, some good news and optimism for the future was needed — and provided — at the Washington State Tree Fruit ...