Conference pears

I don't know about young trees like yours but our Conference pear tree is almost 100 years old. It still gives plenty of pears but some of them always go like that. It looks like pear scab. You can use a treatment (they say many of the treatments are environmentally acceptable) but it's late in the season for that.

All we do is pick them off and leave them to ripen off the tree or, sometimes rot and get thrown, or they do OK and you just cut the scab out before eating. They are my favourite pear.

Thomas Rivers first introduced them 140 years ago and our tree came from his nursery, just down the road from us, which was eventually sold in 1987 and they built a private hospital on part of the site. A section of the fruit trees have been preserved and kept going under the guidance of the local authority.

 

I think you can find on the internet the chemicals that are OK to use.