Hello All,

Was hoping to get some advice from the experts. here is my situation:

November of 2013 I ordered/planted 4 trees from Starks.
1 Blushingstar peach dwarf
1 Redhaven peach dwarf
1 Bartlett pear dwarf
1 Starking delicious pear dwarf

In the spring 2 trees greened up, 2 did not. Unfortunately I did not label the trees (duh!) so I do not know what variety they are. I know one peach and one pear died(?) but I do not know the variety of each tree. Lesson learned the hard way!

Both dead(?) trees have growth from below the graft line.

Questions are:
1) Are the two dead trees really dead? Should I just let them go and see what happens?
2) Should I prune the growth below the graft line and wait? Or just rip the entire tree out?
3) Is there anyway to tell variety without fruit?
4) Assuming I rip them out, what variety should I replace them with?

I did some looking into the pear trees and it seems Moonglow is a good pollinator for both Bartlett and Starking delicious, so I can't go wrong with that either way.

Peach trees are both self pollinating so does it really matter?

Many thanks for any advice.

M.D.A

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