I have read it both ways. I saw origin Italian, then French. You know what? Its a great tasting pear! I look forward to them every summer and early fall. They are prolific here, but do not last long in the Marché.
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How is your Abate Fetel pear this year?
My tree flowered tons but set only 30 fruitlets. The fruit were mostly self-thinned. Half of the 30 fruitlets had to be thinned out because there were not leaves near them.
Not sure if there will there be any left to maturity.
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Had a few more than that but every storm that comes through i get some drops. Hopefully we wind up with a dozen at least to eat! Beautiful tree for sure but i fear with fireblight like it is the last 2 years it may be on borrowed time like the others.
FB on Abate Fetel worries me, too.
I hope mine is true to label. They have long necks but they are still so small to be sure.
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I have an Abate Fetal in my orchard. I did not realize it was perhaps a BF magnet. I hope mine is not. I had to take out a Bartlet pear a few years ago because it started the FB little game. Cut here, cut there, trim this part off. Finally I said “bye” and took it out. Just as it was starting to produce fruit. Now the Abate is starting to produce its first fruit this year.
- update* I looked at my Abate tree tonight ( 5/21) and the blooms did not take. So no fruit this year. Bummer.
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Please post pics Mam, I would love to watch them grow.
Mrs. G.,
Here is my Abbe Fetel.
I bagged all a dozen I have. A few already dropped conveniently in the bags. I think I read that they should be refrigerated for 2 weeks…
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Yayyyyy! Congrats. They look great! Please tell me how they taste. Do they need a pollinator?
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AF definitely needs a pollination partner. Last year it was full of blooms but not one single fruit set. This year, I hand pollinated as many flowers as I could reach. I am glad I did that because spring rain could interfere with pollinators doing their job.
I got about 20 fruit but most are smaller than AF that I bought. It could be the fruit’s first year crop.
By this time, I am busy with cleaning up my yard and often have left Euro pears in the fridge and forgot about them until too late. I don’t think I am not good with Euro pears that need refrigeration. I can’t keep track.
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The ones im growing this year are absolutely beautiful looking and tasting abate fetel at their very best!
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If you don’t eat every one I’ll be cross! 
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I think you better come help me out! France isn’t that far away! Here is the smallest compared to the normal sized! Im eating pears for breakfast. These abate fetel are mostly huge. One pear is like eating a meal. Im tree ripening these and they are delicious!
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Clark, how does it hold on in windy weather? I’ve been hesitant with large pears as we often get strong winds while the rains hit some 15-20km away during the hottest&driest months. But I think our Williams has been trying to hint at something lately:
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It holds very well. I do use tricks with these elongated pears because Kansas is the windy part of the USA. I have a wind block on the north side of my orchard. My pears still occasionally get blown right off my trees! You are wise to point this question out to everyone since it is a problem with all elongated pears.
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This is my favorite pear to eat from the supermarket, and I have been unable to find a tree in 15 years of trying here in Uruguay. I am suffering by going through this forum because we have almost no varieties of everything, in terms of fruit trees. To read about dozens and hundreds of varieties is painful…
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Margarita,
i must ask why they do not grow more types of fruit there? In your position i would begin planting every pear and apple seed i ate until i had hundreds of varities of wonderful fruits. In my childhood i grew seeds of everything and had some wonderful fruit to eat. You can always graft over the ones you dont like.
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I’ll start getting mine in the Saturday market In about two weeks. Yours look great!!!
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Thank you i’m very glad to hear that they will be available soon. I’m very fortunate to be able to grow these.
Here they are listed needing pollination. I think Clark has so many built in pollinators on his land. When I had the tree in RI. I needed a pollinator for it.
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Lol, I read this and the first thing that popped into my mind was “hot cross buns”!
I wonder if hot cross buns would be good with pear preserves. 
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