I just came back from a Korean grocery store. I tasted a pear samples there and like it a lot. The pears are huge and shape is a little flat.
They looked like this. A box of 8 is selling for about $23. A single one is selling for $3.50. So I took a box.
It is labled “Korean pear”. I googled “Korean pear”, it says it can be called “Asian pear, Chinese pear, Japanese pear…”
Can someone tell me what kind of pear is this? It should have a more precise name than Koran pear or Asian pear, right?
@ampersand, thanks! I would definitely like to have some scion wood. We are talking about this coming winter, right? How big can your pear get? When do you harvest them?
@mamuang, yes, they are big! I just weight one, 1 lb 1 oz. The box says product of Korea. I have to say $3.5 is pretty pricey, so a box of 8 is better deal:-) you should add a couple of bucks to the price for being organic, right?
Sarah,
If you have room in your yard, plant the whole tree. It is cold hardy, very productive and in my area, disease resistant. What not to like.
In my yard, KG is the best producer. I have eaten a few A pears, stored bought and my own, KG tastes the best. Usually bigger does not mean better but this one is.
Mamuang, where did you get this tree? Usually, how long does it take for the tree to fruit? Maybe I will do both, graft one and plant one if I can find it.
It was my first tree I bought potted as I had no clue about bare root trees.
One of a good place I suggest you order from is Burnt Ridge Nursery. It is a good nursery and offers fruit trees at a reasonable price. Planting bare root, it could flower in year 3 but I guess by Year 4 you should see some production.
It needs cross pollination. If you have any pear, Euro, Asian, Bradford, in the neighborhood that blooms at the same time, you will be all set.
Just Goggle Olympic or Korean pear and you will get several places to buy the tree. I have one young stand alone tree of Olympic and several grafts of it growing in other trees. My grafts are vigorous with some already 3’ long. Bill
Olympic pears are very expensive in my area. If I were doing this for profit instead of personal enjoyment it would occupy a lot of my planting space. Bill
KG bears at a young age. By third yr for sure here, maybe second. It’s also much easier to thin than most Asian pears because it doesn’t overset nearly as much.
If you already have a pear tree another option would be to go ahead and chip or Tbud a few in and force it to grow this year. I did this last summer and got a little head start at least toward a sampling. Bill
@mamuang, thanks for the info! I have two pear trees to cross pollinate.
@fruitnut, so glad to hear that KG bears young! I am not very patient, I think I am spoiled by peach trees, I remember my first peach tree gave me 3-4 peaches the first year. (I know, I know, I shouldn’t let them fruit the first year)
@Auburn, that’s a good idea! I have two pear trees, one is Ayer, the other one’s tag is lost, but I know it’s a pretty common one. they suppose to be able to cross pollinate. But these two trees’ bloom never overlap, I was thinking of graft some other pear so i don’t have to pollinate them by hand every year. Maybe KB can be a solution. I know how to t-bud, now I just have to get some KB scion.
I can send you a couple of sticks of KG if you want to give summer budding a try. I also have Moonglow which overlaps bloom with my Ayers. Two of my other pears bloom even earlier are Kieffer and Orient. Let me know if you want to give this a try. Bill
I think I still have some dormant in the fridge. I’m not sure how well it will travel this time of year, but will send it to you if you want to give it a try.
@Auburn, @BobVance, I will take both of your offer, thanks a million! My t-bud success rate is pretty low, I need all the scions I can get. Will PM you my address.
Pear is the easiest to graft. You can do a simple bark graft by watching Dr. Yao on Jujube bark graft on YouTube. It takes less then a minute to do. You will have 99% take. I do about 95% bark graft these days.
