Were they low-chill, or does that matter with pears?

Tom

You have to watch Lowes or any of the big stores. Friday was in one of our local "big box stores" and they were selling bareroot northern blueberry bushes. Not a chance they will fruit here.

I don't know anything about growing pears in Florida. But the big box stores do the same in PA. They bring in shrubs rated for zone 7 when we are in zone 5, or 6 at best if the winter is mild. I try to do my 'homework' and look up plants before buying, or at least before planting. I try to avoid impulse buys, but not always good with that!
Marcia

Looking at the tags, I pulled out my (brand-new, birthday gift) android phone and logged on to the U of F agriculture website. One variety was a Pineapple, which U of F says will grow in central and north Florida. The other was a Kieffer, which they say is for north Florida, but I decided to give it a try anyway (at $18.95, not much to lose). Given our recent cold winters, north Florida seems to have moved 200 miles south. Both are fire blight resistant, which is said to be a major harm to pear trees.

That exhausts my knowledge of pear trees. Giving it a try to see how they do.