Someone sent me this. Near Redlands CA, outside of L.A.
Crazy!
Get tons of them every year. Maybe more than a thousand from 5 trees.
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Your photo shows the price of imported pears. Locally harvested asian pears are currently selling for 79 cents / lb at our grocery store.
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There’s no locally grown ones near me. This is the price I pay in the nearest city 2 hours away also, sometimes $7.99.
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At my location in central Alabama we sometimes get a few Asian pears at our Publix store. I don’t remember the price but they were priced high. At my home I have been slowly adding limbs of Dripping Honey and Korean Giant. I’m considering adding Shinko.
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Bill,
There is a Shinko and a Shingo. I believe they are two different varieties. Shinko is the variety known for disease resistant and easier to find in many nurseries. I am not sure who sell Shingo.
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Thanks
Very different varieties. " Korean Asian pears , also known as Singo or Shingo pears , are larger" . I grow shinko now , and its a smaller yellow pear. Shingo can get over 2 pounds.
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Where back when I grew Shinko, it was a russeted pear, not a yellow pear.
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May have been the wrong variety. It is possible i was sent the wrong variety. For that matter we both may have the wrong variety. Shinko is a yellow and sometimes deep yellow/ gold with a rough skin like hosui. It can look a bit like hosui. My scions could be incorrect but i believe they came from the usda. It is not russeted. I can send you some if you want. My tree has had a few pears for years. This is not my image but i have posted pictures from my tree also and they look the same
I posted pictures of small ones here
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To me, Shinko is a same color type of pear as Hosui and Korean Giant. I call it russeted pears as they turn russeted brown as the fruit mature.
Asian pears Shinseiki or 20th Century have smooth yellow greenish skin.
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That’s cheap. In the Rustbelt, low grade Asians are $1.50 - $2 each.
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And the store-bought Asians are crap.
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That must be Korean Giant / Olympic. Mine get to the size of a small grapefruit. I will have to get some photos this season.
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Actually you need to thin 4/5 out of your pears to get the same grade so your real production is around 200.
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In Korea Town in L.A. they would sell crates of them. And they were not that cheap back in the day. For some reason Asian pears have always been $$. I don’t think they were from China either. I think they were from Korea.
Why haven’t Asian pears caught on with fruit growers and they sell cheap in the stores? L.A. or Rustbelt, I’ve never seen an Asian pear less than $1.50 each in the stores. And Ilike I said, storebought are garbage. Picked green and they don’t ripen. Or they have some other tricks to ruin them.
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Never thin a thing. I let the tree thin itself. Have had no problems except with Donut Peach which I cut down. Donut Peach you gotta thin. If tree require one to be a slave to it…the saw comes out. I got rid of my garden for the same reason. No time to be a slave.
Well, maybe if I was young and a pretty gal came along, I’d make some time.
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Try to thin one tree to 1 pear 1-2 feet next year and see the quality difference.
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I have visited this nursery and watched Dr Powell’s presentation. In the video he compares Shinko and Korean Giant if you want to see a comparison. The Hosui has already ripened so it’s not displayed. Shinko is shown at the 2:00 and onward.
Dr. Arlie Powell with Asian Pear.
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Yes, hosui is very early. It will be ripe in the next 2 -4 weeks. By the way the shinko photos above i took from 2 seperate websites and they look just like mine.
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No, it’s inexpensive.
Your friend was shopping at Ranch 99 market. Those pears are imported and subject to tariffs. And yes, they are purposely picked under ripe, then gassed on the boat prior to import.
Next to them are bags of Cutie Mandarins grown north of Los Angeles. It’d be interesting to know the price and ripeness of those for comparison. I spent my childhood in Redlands. I’ll be there next week and check it out.
I live an hours drive south of downtown L.A. in Vista CA. The sand pears (aka Asian pears) offered in our local market are not imported. They cost 25¢ to 75¢ per pound less than U.S. grown European pears. The latter are more highly valued by customers here.
That’s because the stores you shopped in were taking you to the cleaners.
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