These trees are loaded! Anyone else have fruit this year? Love this variety when conditions are good!
I’m growing two of them, but I think they are years away from fruiting.
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My wife grafted this one. I’m not about to tell her how good a job she did. Look at that W&T seam I just unwrapped!
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What is it called?
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I will get a hold of @39thparallel see if he can put more scions of it out there. I think he calls it Clarks small yellow pear.
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Thank you! That would be wonderful. I’ve been eyeing this particular pear for the better part of a year! 39th Parallel ships fantastic scions and trees and I can fit a lot into their flat price shipper!
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I can cut a dozen scions if needed.
This pear and i have a long term love and hate relationship. It is by far the best tasting pear that exists. The problem is it is difficult to catch it at the right time on the right year. I would quickly point out once you do no other pear will do. This pear regullarly gets me in trouble with the family because every year the weather is bad and its fruit is terrible i get the blame. They wait for this pear to produce because once you taste the heavinly taste of its flesh on a good year no other pear will do. On a bad year like the ones we have had lately in Kansas from the weird weather its not worth harvesting. I’ve been passifying my family with drippin honey, warren, karls favorite, magness, clapps favorite, harrow delight etc. that ripens around the same time. Everyone wants it to produce delicious pears but more than half the time it simply wont. The taste is undescribably complex and delicious. This is the only pear that can wow me ,but loves to dissapoint me. This pear should never be the only pear in the orchard rather it is a pear for the pear elites who have an extra spot in the orchard. Prepare to be in love with the fruit , but know it will be a rocky relationship. I checked the pears one morning and they were not ripe, checked them at lunch and 10% had fallen. Quickly i picked 5 gallon buckets that year after tasting one of the succulent ones from the ground. A different year they are so bad i dont even pick them. Hopefully someone has that perfect climate where they reach that heavinly taste year after year. My mother loves to can them in jars and eat them in the winter. She must work quickly because the pear only keeps for a week. When they are good a produce abundantly everyone must work feverishly to dry them, freeze, cook, or can them. Eating them fresh always was and will be the best. I just enjoy the week and eat them heartily and share them with everyone until they are gone. Then like now i miss the taste and wait for their return. It is likely next year they will taste like a walnut husk again until the good weather returns here.
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Clark,
How far north is this pear grown? Is anybody growing it in zone 4 or 3b? I have trees in zone 7 and am about to start some in zone 3b. I would like to give it a try in both zones as an experiment with possible rewards.
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Do you ever use a penetrometer (pressure tester) to help you gauge when to pick?
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These have all been genotyped with the axiom pear 70k array by USDA; if your pear is genotyped they can match it
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Lets send it in i would love to know what it is. @39thparallel was here a short time ago and we were making some plans for the year. This pear is a great example of an excellent tasting type of pear when the weather cooperates. It is by far the hardest to get good fruit from but the most worthwhile when i do.
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Heads up that I have a dozen or more sticks of Clark’s Yellow scionwood. If anyone wants a graft, send me a message.
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Next year or after. I only have rootstock I’m grafting to this year and one new tree for European pears.
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I have 5 requests so far. Anyone else, please message with your address. I’m trying to send out most tomorrow. If anyone wants to trade, include what you have to offer. I’m still looking for Maxine, Tyson, and Southern Bartlett pears.
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Hello Darrel,
I will have all the Maxine scion wood you could ever want as I plan on pruning my 3-year old tree soon. Also, I don’t have as much of Tyson, but today I cut som scion wood from last year’s graft and could include a stick or two of that as well. Sincerely, Ben Stutzman.
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Message sent Nuttywon, and thanks!
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