That is good to know. Are your Asian pears about the same size. It seams like they are slow to size up…impatient I guess.
Yes my Asian pears are around that size.
Great, I will lean on you for help on when to harvest. Thanks Clark!
My shinko pears continue to put some size on. I think I should have thinned them more but it is the only branch on my multi grafted tree that has fruit this year. Here are a couple pics.
Anyone have a guess on when shinko will ripen in the Midwest?
Nice looking pears Derby! Asian pears tend to bear earlier than any other pear in my experience.
Do you have shinko Clark?
Jason,
In September. You can tell when the fruit is all russett and the skin some what transparent.
Tony
Thanks Tony, and thanks for the scion, this is your shinko that is making fruit for me. First fruit in 19 years thanks to this forum.
Derby,
Mine is not producing yet. Probably be a couple of years yet. Just grafted it this year.
Maybe next year Clark, it is the most precious of my pears,
Derby,
Wanted to follow up to see how your pear tree is doing now?
The birds started pecking the Asian pears then they began disappearing so I picked them. They were not spectacular but still a very satisfying feeling to pick fruit from a tree I grafted.
Usually the flavor of pears improves with age. Glad to read that it already fruited for you! Asian pears fruit quickly!
There are lots of varieties on it that I looking forward to trying. I added magness this year.
Jason:
Did you try T-budding your pear trees? I found T-budding peach is very satisfying. but the root stock better to be young(at most 1 year’s growth, best is this year’s new shoot). my T-budding on old branches all failed. Don’t know if this would be the same for pear trees.
I did not t bud my pear, I used a bark graft. The understock was very large. The original pear was 20 feet tall and I cut it back to six feet. I tried t budding my peach tree but it was before I was a member here and I did not do it correctly. I have bark grafted, cleft grafted and a small amount of whip grafting.
I t-budded 2 older pear trees. Each tree I added two tbuds on and both had one tbud take. @fruitnut gave great instructions T-budding tutorial
Jason,
T-budding saved me a lot of work this year!. Clefts, bark, whips, saddles have always been my primary grafts. Side grafts have their uses but for me I do less than 3-4 a year. I did hundreds of whips and clefts. Bark aka rinds are limited to maybe 10 a year on older trees. Can definitely see myself using much more t-budding in the future. Have you finished grafting all of your pears?
It is kind of a work in progress, I think I have all I can keep straight on my old tree. I planted three ohxf 87 rootstock and let them grow this summer. I think I will graft them next year. Maybe a magness on one of them.