Any Asian Pear (Nashi) growers about?

Ive got a 3 year old Nashi tree in the garden thats looking healthy with blossom just about to flower. Theres been no fruit so far but im hoping that chopping down a nearby large wild cherry tree down will now give it enough light to enable fruit setting.

Has anyone grown or growing one of these and if so can they offer any tips? Tia.

 

No advice I'm afraid but good luck!!

 

Cheers @Loki

 

I have never grown a Nashi but I would treat it the same as a pear tree.

In spring, sprinkle a balanced general fertiliser (such as Growmore) around the base of the plant. We have also top dressed our pear with pot ash.

Pears should be pruned every year to get the best crop.

I would also put a Grease band on the trunk in late October, before the adult moths begin to emerge in November.

Nashi are a lovely fruit. Enjoy.

 

I grew one from seed once, got up to flowering size even.
Then the twonk who ran the allotments back then decided to pour weedkiller on it during his usual annual killing spree.

Didn't look like a cabbage, he only grew cabbages, so it got the treatment.

 

@kazzawazza thanks,ive forgotten all about the greasebands. Havent got any potash but gave it a double dose of tomorite

@Marley Farley . This one is meant to be self fertile but i bought a conference pear to help with pollination. Damned thing got scab just like the first one and is now in the critical ward and about to join the first one on the bonfire of death. Im not having much success with this fruit growing lark. Victoria plum tree produced a plum last year which the wasps got before me

@pete that twonk will outlive us all if he only eats the cabbages as there so damned good for us.

 

Looks like the blossom is about to open, just as it cools again. I have a severe lack of bees in this garden so pollination looks like the big problem here. Tried hand pollination last year,no joy. Late frosts are a killer here too.
Just got to keep trying I guess.

 

If its any help @WeeTam , Dave W, I think, gave me a good tip for pollinating peaches, don't see why it shouldn't work on pears, that is if yours is self fertile.
You just go out on a sunny dry day, warmer the better of course, and spray the flowers with a fine spray of water, it shifts the pollen, but obviously only works on self fertile flowers.

 

Might give that a go too ,cheers Pete.