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bad pollination?

18 years ago

So far this year I have had a couple of pear trees reach a full bloom and I noticed today that I didn't see many pears in the trees at all. It has been a suck year for chill hours here but these are low chill pears and did reach a full bloom. On top of that I did see bees buzzing around the flowers and I even think there was good over lap of bloom from two nearby cultivars for pollination. These trees I am talking about have had good crops before. There are a few pears in the trees but it appears to be very, very few. This should not be an "off year" for these trees either and we have not had a late freeze or any hail that I am aware of. Any ides of what gives here? Anybody ever have a bum year for no apparent reason before? I'm very frustrated by this.

Thanks,

Scaper