Here comes the 2024 pear crop!

[clarkinks]

@Auburn

I’m a long time advocate of Drippin Honey as you know. I have several trees of it. Im very glad your growing these and like the taste!

Drippin' Honey Asian Pear

The flavor of Drippin’ Honey Asian Pear was good last year but this year is incredible. It’s hard to believe the fruit could be as good as these are! Highly recommend them because of the size , flavor , and they are moderately easy to grow. [image] [image]

Here are some old photos from this thread Here comes the 2016 apple and Pear harvest! - #30 by clarkinks

If you have a few you pick slightly green they store for months. The only downside to Drippin’ Honey is they are given to cracking if you have droughts followed by heavy rains.

We are running about a month ahead on some pear harvests this year. I need to watch myself to not miss any. Thanks for the warning Bill i need to keep an eye on mine. Some years im harvesting in August instead of July the same pears.

Here comes the 2019 pear harvest!

Incredible harvest today August 3rd of Clapps favorite! Picked a 5 gallon bucket already! Others are ripe but im getting to them as i can! Clapps favorite is an incredibly difficult pear to pick at the right time. Yesterday they were not ready but the green june beetles attacked telling me the sugar content was increasing so today i did the tilt test again and they are ripe ! These will rot from the inside out so if you grow them be mindful of the timing. The pear will look perfect on the outsi…