Experience with Atago and Olympic Asian Pears?

General Fruit Growing
#1

I lost an Olympic, aka Korean Giant, Asian pear tree while it was getting established to fireblight and am considering whether to replace it with another Olympic. A commercial Asian pear grower recommended the variety Atago to me over Olympic, although the reasons are more relevant to a commercial grower.

If you have experience with both varieties, I would be interested in your opinions on the relative merits of the two–flavor of the fruit, storage life, tree habit, fireblight resistance, etc… Any information would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

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#2

Where are you located? It appears different locations yield a different result re. Fire blight resistance (or not).

#3

Here in the northeast Atago doesn’t get up near the sugar of Olympic. It isn’t even worth growing IMO.