Jesse,
When in Aug you picked Clara Frijs.
I found this pear on the ground under a multi-grafted pear tree. Clara Frijs is one of the graft. Pics from each side.
How long do you refrigerate them?
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I honestly don’t recall, I did eat some right off the tree too!
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They are removed from the tree here around August 21st this year and last. Your 1 week later than me on some pears. It makes sense yours would be ripe. Clara frijs is my only pear on time.
Thanks. @JesseinMaine and @clarkinks
Mine should be ready this coming week.
My problem is I have two grafts of pears that the fruit look the same. One has a tag labeled Clara Frijs (the fruit in the pic). The other I lost the label but fruit looks the same to me.
But I don’t recall making two grafts of the same variety.
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Taste will tell you for sure. Clara frijs is very fine grained , melting, high sugar, high quality. It has no sour taste to it. The first year i had one i felt put off by the somewhat mealy creamy texture a bit as i found it blan. The first year it was mealy like a rome apple or an overipe apple. The second year i grew to love it and realized what it was supposed to taste like. Its a high quality pear that will be obviously very different from all your other pears. My taste needed to adjust to the difference. Your aware i like sour taste more than you but this high quality pear has none at all. A pear connoisseur might throw out the famous comice for clara frijs. Its a preference but i prefer the more complexed flavors of my small yellow pear over both. If the flavor is easily described it can be considered boring. The small yellow pear has a taste not easily described. Love the somewhat spicy flavor of harrow sweet, or the sour bartlett like flavor of harrow delight, or the comice like flavor of warren or magness, or the sugary sweet asian pear, european mixed taste of drippin honey, the anjou like flavor of potomac all of which are good pears. Clara frijs is in a class of its own because its different from any of those pears i normally love yet it is very high quality. Saying this i still prefer the small yellow pear and many others to clara frijs not because its quality is lacking but because of my own preference.
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I left a Clara Frijs on the counter (no refrigeration) for about a week. Ate it yesterday. Like you described, it is a fine-grained and sweet pear. It probably is another pear that does not need refrigeration.
It has a nice medium to large size, too.
A few more dropped today. I did a tilt-pick of others, they did not come off. But again, tilting method is not always reliable way to figure out ripening pears, either.
I got a few today and will pick some on later dates.
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Jesse,
Do you refrigerate these pears at all? If so, how long?
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I have tried just counter ripening
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Thanks, Jesse. I will do the same.
I bare have room left in the fridge, anyway. Apples are packed in there.
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Hundreds of Clara frijs pears this year on the trees. One tree was removed due to the fireblight. No pears are safe from fireblight this year. This tree looks great. A truly high quality pear that is different is always welcome! Some people will call this their favorite pear!
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When do you pick Clara compared to Bartlett?
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Mine were ripe a few weeks ago.
Ok so how did that compare to Buerre Gifford
which was ready here around Aug 7…
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Clara frijs is a class of its own. The people who like it will love it. It is very high quality. Its not my favorite pear. The pear is flavorful, melting , sugary, everything you want in a high quality pear. The things its missing are everything i love in a pear which is the anjou like flavor of potomac, the sweet spicy taste of the seckle family of pears, the crisp honey like flavorful taste of drippin honey, the undescriable taste of my small yellow pear, magness and warrens taste similar to royal rivierra aka comice, the bartlett like flavor of harrow sweet. There are so many good pears that are fireblight resistant. All that said i still grow 3 clara frijs. I will keep searching for a bosc replacement. You cant go wrong with clara frijs unless you get fireblight in your area. If i called it an excellent pear it is worthy of the compliment.
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Can you address its bloom group? Early, mid, or late? I can’t find anything online that describes its bloom timing.
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It is not my earliest , it is more mid season. Early pears are blooming now here.
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My Clara Frijs is blooming now which would correspond to group 3. Group 1 is usually Asian varieties. Group 2 example is Keiffer which for me finished blooming 3 days ago. My Warren is at least a week from blooming.
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Spray with copper, fireblight can damage clara frijs badly. The fruit is unique and unusual. Many consider it the best. If you like that type of flavor, i suppose i see their point. I enjoy a few a year. I much rather enjoy a warren, clarks yellow, or one of the seckle variants, tyson , potomac, or even bosc. It is a truly exceptional pear but not to my taste preference. It is refined, sweet, smooth, completely free of any hint of grit , all things you want in a dessert pear. I prefer the difficulty in pears that are hard to grow correctly. Clarks yellow with a unique pear flavor that cannot be matched easily or the deep rich seckle flavor. I like pears with those hidden flavor attributes that leave you wanting for a description and yet trying to put the flavor into words. Let me say it differently clara frijs is excellent but boring. This year you will understand and return to the clara frijss tree 5 times each time thinking wow that is a great pear . Each time thinking now i think i will go eat some other pears.
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