I’m counting one cracked butt and one milder scab on one side, not representative as most fruit is good if not for the blasted hornets that do more damage the drier the weather… Not too bad for a tree that has a monster fruit set but can’t feed all.
And because I looked for a good example for scab, I did find one very bad pear:
The trees are 150m apart, the younger one gets some extra water and occasional duck poop. I have another younger tree higher (and drier) than the Swiss-cheese. No scab, no extra feed and I grafted that one onto pyrus pyraster. I should maybe add that Swiss-cheese is the most exposed to frosts and surrounded by walnuts.
No. The tree that has issues is 6m+. We rather prune for air-flow. Which we haven’t done on this tree for 2 years.
(btw. Can you copy all of this to a separate thread so we don’t hog the Asian pears?)
Years ago, I was given a pear scion labeled “New Arirang.” Not knowing what it is, I looked it up. Grandpa’s Orchard indicates that it’s a sport of Arirang (actually "A Ri Rang’). Several sites, including Washington State and Penn State, are listing Arirang as the same thing as Olympic/Olympic Giant/Korean Giant). Then I see there are two separate pears listed for Arirang and Korean Giant in the original post of this thread. Now I’m totally confused.
Some possibilities based on what I’ve read:
New Arirang is sport of Olympic/Korean Giant, which doesn’t seem right.
Olympic could be the same thing as Arirang, while Olympic Giant/Korean Giant is a sport of Arirang, sometimes called New Arirang.
Both Olympic and New Arirang could be two separate sports of Arirang.
My “New Arirang” fruits have never gotten bigger than a baseball, so I have my doubts about it being that same thing as Korean Giant. Unfortunately, I don’t have KG to compare.
These are delicious!
Crispy, drippingly-juicy, sweet, slightly aromatic, some of my favorite Asian pears, and they’re a mystery variety, the box was no help and the workers probably don’t know, they probably are from China, but could have been grown in Russia as well, bought in Moscow.
Clark, somehow I missed this post from Aug 31. ? Thanks for all this info on the Asians. After just one year with a decent crop of Asian pears - I would say that Drippin Honey, Yoinashi and Hosui are my best. Rajas were gorgeous - but at least this first crop - were not all that tasty. I would like to add Shinsui grafts this winter . . . so I will put out a request when it comes time to trade.
Knock on wood . . . I had no fireblight. (I hate to even mention it!)
I had several folks warn me about Bartlett and Anjou, and name them as ‘Fireblight Magnets’, so I switched out their ‘central leaders’. Although I did leave a couple good branches of the original trees - and have gotten some good pears from both . . . with no problems so far. ???
One thing that is very confusing - is that there are so many challenges to the identity of my pears. It really makes me think that the scions I received might have been mismarked? People seem quite certain that (for instance) my ‘Moonglows’ are not really Moonglows. And others say that mine look like theirs. ? I guess it doesn’t really matter, in the end. I just want to be able to eat and share some great fruit!
Thanks, again, for all the excellent PearTips, here on the forum! - Karen
I ordered a Megistsu from David at Century Farm Orchards… he said its a wonderful Asian pear… no clue where he got it or much about it. I sent Clark a pic.
Also added a Juicy Jewel from Surek.
I almost have all of them that im interested in…
I emailed Restoring Eden about Shinglo… they said that it is different than Shinko… and they buy their trees from the same place that has them both. They dont know much about anything that they sell… i dont think they grow anything out. Other than that i cannot find anything on it.
To me those look like fragrant pear, aka xinjiang pear, aka pyrus x sinkiangensis.
This spring I grafted two cultivars of this category from @Marta – Fragrant Xinjiang and Fragrant Korla, both on OHxF87. It looks like she’ll have scions this winter of several cultivars.
I think i have a dozen moonglow that should be producing again soon. I will take photos when they do for you. I had some BET i topworked to a row of moonglow.
I am not sure it it’s a common problem, yet for me most of the grafts that I did last year of ‘Shinsui’, most of them failed to take, and the two that did take out of 5, this year the graft of one of them looks like it may fail. I could not believe how many of them failed, one more might fail that I thought would make it. So make sure that you get enough ‘Shinsui’ scion!, just in case.
Yes those are some sort of fragrant pear. They look and sound very similar to my Yulu fragrant pear which is a cross of Snowflake and Korla pears. It is one of my favorite asian pears, very different than the other types.
You are welcome, it’s a strong grower if it takes well and strong.
Some people find that the variety’s branches breaks easy, that seems to be because of overbearing more than anything else, so make sure to thin it, oh and I have learned that it’s best to limit pear branch growth to 1 foot to 1 and a half feet per season. Especially if you have a variety that over bears easily. That makes less of an area with pears, that way you have less to thin, it makes the branches thicker, and you don’t need to thin as high a percentage of pears verses letting the branches grow longer. I think that I have decided to go with a tiny bit more than a foot per branch per year on all my pear grafts. That way the trees are a little less out of reach in the long run, verses almost a half a foot longer per year.