Does this pear tree have a disease?

[ClueLess60]

I have had some great help on the forum concerning some apple trees, and hopefully someone will be able to assist on this subject too. I have searched several websites on diseases but can’t find anything like mine.

This pear tree (I’m not sure what variety) I took on when I moved to the property 3 years ago. I would guess it is 10 years plus old, it stands about 10 to 11 ft high. Like a lot of the other trees in the garden, it had grown out of control. I have been pruning it slowly each year, and now it is reasonably manageable.

In the summer, the leaves and fruit seemed to be healthy enough looking, not that it fruited that much, presumably because of the harder than normal pruning.

Yesterday I noticed that the bark on the trunk and branches has a crazing/cracking to it, and in places is even coming away. This isn’t something I had noticed before, although there’s a chance it has been like this along, as I have had a lot on my plate since moving to the property.

 

 

[Stere]

Might be dead

Edited January 17 by Stere

[Peasgood]

Might be completely normal.

[Excels1or]

10 hours ago, ClueLess60 said:

I have had some great help on the forum concerning some apple trees, and hopefully someone will be able to assist on this subject too. I have searched several websites on diseases but can’t find anything like mine.

This pear tree (I’m not sure what variety) I took on when I moved to the property 3 years ago. I would guess it is 10 years plus old, it stands about 10 to 11 ft high. Like a lot of the other trees in the garden, it had grown out of control. I have been pruning it slowly each year, and now it is reasonably manageable.

In the summer, the leaves and fruit seemed to be healthy enough looking, not that it fruited that much, presumably because of the harder than normal pruning.

Yesterday I noticed that the bark on the trunk and branches has a crazing/cracking to it, and in places is even coming away. This isn’t something I had noticed before, although there’s a chance it has been like this along, as I have had a lot on my plate since moving to the property.

 

 

 

Could be Scold, could be fungal. If you pruned it hard I'd have expected it to yield more fruit, see how it produces this year as pears can skip a year.  Prognosis doesn't look good in the long run as there's visible delamination, however as its a small tree which is still going into leaf means there's Cambium hanging in there

[Peasgood]

My ancient Bramley trees are constantly delaminating, it is how they grow and they are perfectly healthy.

I'm not so familiar with pears but I do think it is normal based on the picture.

[Stere]

Need to look at the twigs to see if they are all still healthy/alive to confirm its condition,  if they are fine it could be nothing to worry about.

 

Just scrape bark/ bend or trim with sceateurs etc too check if  the twigs are  still green

 

Also have an apple with similar bark that is still is relatively healthy.

 

 

But on the other hand some seemingly healthy trees can just  die  due to unknown reasons without gradually declining,

 

Had a pear do that anyway. It  was healthy one summer, but then after next winter it just never came back into leaf.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 18 by Stere

[ClueLess60]

Thanks all. I will try that Stere and report back.