Oh gee. I just realized you are in San Diego. Bartletts don't do well unless they have sufficient winter chill. So depending upon just where you live, that may be the problem.

Beyond that, each tree is an individual. No two plants are ever exactly the same.

CRFG (CA Rare Fruit Growers) has a group that meets in your area. They likely can provide you with good info.

Hate to say this - but, Bartlett's don't like our zone 10 climate. After 2nd year here, my little tree still hasn't leafed out. I think the best thing to do, would be to donate it to someone who lives in Julian.

Just my 2 c's.

Bejay

And, coming from HD, it's very possible that they're not both Bartletts - heck, it may be that neither is Bartlett.
The big box stores are notorious for purchasing overruns from large propagators and applying their own labels, as they don't figure the average homeowner will know the difference - if they even survive to fruit.

Other posters have suggested that the big box stores are notorious for mislabeling, even to the point of perhaps the intentional mislabeling by their suppliers when the selection that was ordered has run out.

I guess I started typing just before you posted, but it was your warning elsewhere that I referred to.

Thanks for your replies - I figured out probably within a month or two of planting them that they would likely never prosper here, but the little one has given me hope as it has fruit on it. Whatever it may be it's some kind of pear anyway lol.

I live in Poway and according to Anderson Nurserys breakdown we are a 700 or 800 chilling hour zone so it's right on the edge of what a bratlet might need, I know it darn near destroys my bananas every winter. I've been stripping the leaves to force dormancy and again the little one loves it, the big one doesn't seem to care either way. I'll see if it flowers this year and give it another year or so anyway, it still makes a nice tree even if it's not going to be a fruit tree.

It likely will flower. And it may well set some fruit. But it won't carry any fruit to maturity.

If you want a pear, consider the Asian pears which do well with low-chill.