Pears are getting ripe very late in 2019. Douglas, Duchess d’ Angoulme, and improved kieffer are still mostly on the trees. Anyone elses pears getting ripe late this year?
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It seems to me that things are running differently from last year, and last year was different too.
As I understand it the weather of the current year actually has less influence on a crop than the weather of the previous year. Once you try to factor the both of them you can get into something of a mess. So I don’t know what to think.
But short answer? Yes, I think things are later this year. Certainly has been true of my apples.
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No, not in Kentucky. By mid August I had picked any apples, that the bears hadn’t eaten. A tree (not Macintosh we’ll call it) I always harvest in late September or early October…all the apples “disappeared” one night in early August…20 foot tall or more tree.
I picked Frostbite in early August…it wasn’t actually ripe, but it was on the sweet side regardless. Then the tree died from drought in early September. G11 or G41 I dont’ recall which from memory.
So, things were definitely ahead of the usual ripening times here. Picked the last of my mom’s Winesaps that I could reach a week ago…not colored hardly, but ripe. Most hit the ground in mid September. The ones left kept growing despite the super dry fall.
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Are those your latest ripening pears most years? I’m interested in exploring options for especially late ripening pear varieties. Anyone else have recommendations?
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I can tell you ars grin have some particularly late types available and some early ones as well. I was shocked when i first researched this to learn some pears ripen in June
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