Yeah!!! Go, Sophia. I wonder if it needs cross pollination and with what varieties?
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I am ecstatic that the one bud Red Asian pear scion from @Sophia2017 took. Just have to wait for a couple of years for a taste test. Loved that red leaf.
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It looks very exciting!
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Did you take anymore pictures of the blooms?
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Nope.
The small fruits were dropped.
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It looks like itās this pear. Unique and beautiful Asian Pear Early Crisp Red Pyrus | Etsy
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Looks like it. But not sure if the seeds will be true to the parent?
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I was thinking the same.
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5 seeds for $32 before shipping and handling!!! And I was complaining about jujube trees being expensive.
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Plus this will not guarantee the seeds will growth up looks like the parent. I think peach seed will be real close to the parent but pear needs crossed pollination so it has half of the red Asian pear. Only the scion is identical when grafting.
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I was posting that link mostly so you would know the name of it.
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I hope it turn out the best tasting pear, if so, if so than everyone in the world wants one or more.
I feel so bad not being able to get mine. Got an apple that looks like it, nobody wants it. Too many looks the same.
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I got this scion at a swap last year. It was labeled Zao Su Liā¦ I assumed it would be the green pear I find online when I search the name, but this year itās flowers look like this. Any chance this is the red version? Iād be very excited if it was! Would the green version also have pink flowers?
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I stop hunting for fruits by none reputable source/pictures/description. So called rare fruits may be photoshoped into perfect shape or color. Maybe one out of whole treeful of fruits looks like or close like the one in the picture. I will be happily let some one else to waste time and money.
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Fair enoughā¦ and thanks for the input. Iām new to this so the wisdom of experience is welcome. In this case I wasnāt really searching for something rare. I just wanted to practice my grafting and had a Bartlett tree that I didnāt really care about so I grabbed 6 Asian pear scions at random from my local scion exchange and grafted them. I didnāt think much more about it until I saw the red flower buds this year and searched for the variety on the forumā¦ and I came across this thread. It may be more common than I realized as I donāt have much experience growing pears, but I hadnāt seen pink/red pear flowers before, so I thought it was worth a little research
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The pear you grafted is actually interesting and pretty. Pears with red flowers or red fleshed are not common.
@PharmerDrewee has mentioned red and green Zao Su Li pears (and gave me the green Zao Su Li scion). You may get the real red Zao Su Li. That is exciting.
Andrew may know more about this variety. Hopefully he will chime in.
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Its fabulous!
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Can you find out the name? Thatās a beautiful fruit for sure!
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The variety was labeled Zao Su Li which seems to be a commercially available variety (Asian Pear, 'Zao Su Li' ā Cricket Hill Garden)
But the red flowers have me thinking that maybe thereās a chance itās the red version by the same name that @tonyOmahaz5 and @Sophia2017 had talked about grafting earlier in this thread. Iāll update the photo when the flowers open up.
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I think that you have the red Zao Su Liļ¼ written as ē“ ę©é „ę¢Ø in Chinese @Philbert Congrats! This is very exciting to see the red color variant. You can find more information on google with its name written in Chinese then using google translate. The parentage of the original green form is also interesting, perhaps descended from a pear imported from Japan that we may already be familiar with.
I think the flesh will be white in color though from pictures Iāve seen online. Iām grafting the green one this year because Iām not sure what happened to it.
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