Hey guys, this is Ross and not too long ago we did a video on observing your landscape and how important that is observing your trees and being with your trees and being a good observer is going to make you a good grower. Here we have a tree that is a pear tree and after this tree had flowered it got a nice case of fire blade and I noticed it on a shoot right here we cut that whole thing out and it didn't seem to matter because it also spread to or a different part of the tree also got infected and now the entire pear tree is pretty much dead. So what I'm going to do because none of this is looking healthy you can see this branch in particular up here, all this is dying. So what I'm going to do is actually cut the whole thing back all the way to the base. Hopefully we can get a healthy shoot that doesn't have fire blade and we're going to have to restart with this variety completely. So bit of a shame but it may also be a sign that this variety is not going to make it here. This is a variety called the Kosui and a lot of the Asian pear actually gets fire blade and I haven't seen fire blade in my area just yet but here it is. This is it really not looking good this particular tree so wherever that pear tree is in the neighborhood that is carrying fire blade is certainly getting to this tree in this location here and we're just going to have to keep our eyes on it in the future. I do want to mention our pears are looking pretty decent. I don't want to make this whole video just on fire blade you can see though some of the birds and yeah really just birds specific types of birds have been coming in the backyard and actually biting into these pears taking out pieces of the pears and the crop as a result is a lot less. I had a net over this to just protect them for a while. I think because I had thinned the peaches over here against the fence there was spy aid. Those when we thinned them out we just let the peaches fall on the ground and then I had birds and squirrels and rabbits and different things come by and really get at those peaches those unright peaches. I didn't think they were even edible. I didn't think something would even go after them but they did and then they realized there's other fruits in the yard like these pears that we could also bite into and we can take bites out of those and then as a result some of the pears like this one here is another good example just have marks in them and I don't know if I should just leave them and let them ripen or just they're kind of a waste. What I am going to do is bag every single one of them. You can see what these are, Gans of Bags because we took off the netting. The netting is no more. It was really just to kind of get the birds away from this location but I think to protect the remaining pears, the very few remaining pears that I have you know whether it's a cycle pair. I think this one's actually, this one's Harrow Sweet. These are my Europeans over here by the way. This one is Magnus I think. Yep. Probably this is another Harrow variety. You can see that there's nice looking pears and I'm excited to try them but if I don't protect these I think something's going to get at them at some point. Certainly I think last year a bird or a squirrel had taken away the very few pears that I had so this year is probably going to be no exception to that. Here's some Asian pears. This variety is looking great. I'm excited to have the Asian pears for sure. This one's called Choduro. So very cool but you know it is what it is. We have to chop back that tree, protect the rest of these fruits and we should be good to go. I mean I don't think this is too really big of a worry or anything like that. This is just something we're going to have to deal with now in this climate is the fire blade and protecting them. It's just something you got to learn as time goes on you know. Luckily this tree isn't loaded with 200 or more fruits and then I'm really you know upset about it. So this is just a pretty young tree. You know we'll see what happens with this tree when it comes back but yeah observe your landscape guys it really is important. Spend time with your trees. As I mentioned. Okay guys thank you so much for watching this little update to the pears we'll talk to you all soon. Take care.