Yours were close but not ripe yet I can see the seeds as well. The first year I grew Maxine I could not pick them right. The first year I found them to be exactly as you describe hard and not sweet or soft and not impressive. After that the pears have been great ever since. Most pears do not produce a good first crop here. They will be much better next year.
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Picked all Dripping Honey off the tree. Around 30 lb. The largest this year is little over 350 gram . Not bad size.
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Annie,
What are the chances of some Drippin’ wood for next season.
I’d gladly pay shipping etc.
Mike
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Those look great you picked them at the perfect time. They really store a long time. The yellow ones will not store as your aware. They look very good congratulations!
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Thanks Clark. Iwas going to ask you how long they can be kept. After I was off the phone，I know they will all be gone soon because my family and fiends love the flavor of dripping honey. I even don’t have enough to give a few to each of them.
These are bagged pears almonst no bug bites. This year, squirrels and raccoons seem have not bothered my pears yet( Squirrels were biting on my peaches.) So the pests pressure is lower. I still have Korean giant on the tree and Jilin on the tree. Korean giant is ready , but I will let it hang on the tree for another week. It looks like jilin will finish the last.
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Korean Giant is targeted at my property worse than anything else. The tan colored fruits often get rot or are damaged by insects though I’m unsure why. I’ve stored drppin’ honey easily until February that’s one of my favorite things about them. In March the skin wrinkles but the drippin’ honey are still edible. See this thread Drippin' Honey Asian Pear this is what they look like in February after having been harvested in August.
Historically I’ve stored them in a humidity controlled crisper. The photo below was November that year. Again as we look at the past we can see the value of long storage pears.
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@IL847 - Me too, Annie. If you have any Drippin’ Honey scions - I’d love to trade. I am keeping a reminder list . . . and if I can remember to use it (!) I will ask again in January!
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Sure, gladly to trade. We can remind each other in Jan.
This is last batch of dripping honey I picked this year. I UPS couple of boxes of dripping honey and Yoinash to TX a week ago to my daughter. She likes the dripping honey. Yoinash is too juicy and thin skinned , most of them were cracked and bruised by the time the package got there.
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Clark, I have a question for you. When the dripping honey were picked, the temperature was still high, did you store then in the basement or refrigerator? You said you store them in humidity controlled crisper, around what temperature this scrisper has inside? I can wrap them in newspaper and store them in a cool place in winter time . My basement in general around mid 40 in winter. But I can’t find a cool enough place to store them from now to temperature drop enough. Does humidity play a bigger role than the temperature in terms of longer storage life of pears?
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While it was a pretty light fruit set this year, the pears from our Luscious have been exceptional.
The flavour is deep and fragrant and they are juicy and mostly melting.
I can only guess that it is now old enough to be putting out its mature style fruit. ( most are a good size too)
They are so much better than any commercial ones we’ve had.
One of my fathers fave desserts is a pear/cream cheese tart and even he said that he’d rather just eat these Luscious cold than bake them!
If I had the room, I’d be tempted to add a second one.
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From upper left and downwords:
Peggy, Korean Giant, Atago, Shin Li
Shinko, Niitaka, Mishirasu, Drippin Honey, Raja.
And euro pears: Patten and Honey Sweet
All asian pears from one quince tree.
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Size difference between Korean Giant depending on rootstock (left: quince and on the right: normal pear rootstock)
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Great variety, congratulations! Please can you rate them, from best to worst? Thank’s! 
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So far peggy is last. I must still try Mishirasu, Shin Li, but they are not ripe enough. So far best tasting is Shinko, Raja, Drippin Honey and Atago, but I can’t decide which of these is the best. All 4 have their unique taste.
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Thank you very much! And Niitaka?
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Niitaka is slightly less sweet than the 4, but better than Korean Giant.
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Thank you very much, that’s a great help! 
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It can all change once KG ripens up. But Atago and Niitaka are also not 100% ripe yet
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Your Honey Sweet does not appear to match Cummins’ description.
Your has not russetting at all.
Your pear looks like a green D’Anjou pear.
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