Talk:The Perfect Pear/@comment-29017069-20170706000001/@comment-10390252-20170709170053

I have the feeling that, after the Pear family left Ponyville, their land came under the control of the Apples. However, either Granny didn't replace the pear trees with apple trees out of respect to Pear Butter or that part of the land was passed to Pear Butter's control as Granny's way of avenging what Grand Pear did to his daughter.

After Pear Butter died, the land would have passed to one of her children (at least legally) but I suspect that Granny was never able to tell them because of her mixed feelings about all the wrongs she and others committed that were somehow connected to that part of the land. So the pear orchard remained untended for many years.

I'd love it if, at some point, it was revealed that young AJ and Big Mac found the pear orchard and, as a childish act of rebellion (kicking out against the "don't talk about the pears" rule), began to secretly tend it as 'their' place when they couldn't deal with Granny's increasingly erratic and grumpy behaviour. That's how they found their parents' Bond Tree and, sensing its importance on some level, kept it secret.