Ok, so a littleover 2 years ago I was at HD and decided I wanted some fruit trees. Knowing nothing about what I was doing I grabbed 2 of the bare root bartlett pears - you know the onces that come with little plastic bag around the roots. I planted them and soon learned 1) bartletts in San Diego is an extreme long shot 2) I wasn't going to get any pollination with 2 of them.

So anyway - what exactly does "partly self fruitful in the arid west" imply? One of my trees seems to have taken well to my enforced leaf stripping / induced dormancy and is covered in blooms. The other appears maybe a couple weeks away and looks like it will have less bloom coverage. Does normal blooming imply a chance for fruit? (I live in a "artic" SD microclimate of San Diego and get between 500-800 chilling hours in a winter). Are they partl self fruitful from self pollination or do some blooms just make fruit with no pollination? I had a big ol swarm of bees a couple weeks back for my Anna Apple but they are completely ignoring the pear tree.