I’ve got too many trees and they are to big for that. I’m sure they work great though. I’m going to start trying out some traps to at least maybe reduce the population. I have cats and guns for squirrels.
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Rain, beautiful rain is falling. Looks like 1.5 inches so far and maybe another inch coming. The first batch came pretty quickly, but now it is steady and I’m hoping it will be a good soaking rain. That will certainly go a long way toward recharging our ground water.
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I got almost a fifth of an inch today. Still need a ton but I’ll take what I can get for sure.
EDIT/update:
Well 5 days later, and I’ve gotten almost 3 inches of rain this week (most has fallen slow and steady too so hopefully a large amount got the chance to sink in).
Very grateful for the rain and hoping this trend continues for a good while (haha though now I’ll need to actually cut grass again soon I imagine) 
We got a good amount of rain the past couple days. Still had periods of heavy but fast, but yesterday was a nice soaking rain. I had to go out and pick a lot of the vegetables to avoid splitting. Got a really good bush bean harvest out of it. It helps that they were kind of hidden behind my peppers and eggplants. 
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Just following up on Dripping Honey in our area.
I harvested all the fruit today. I have it grafted at the top of two Harrow Sweet trees and the squirrels have been bad, but not as bad as other years, so I got quite a few - comes in at 24lbs. I also planted a tree of DH on OHxF97 in my neighbor’s yard for him and it is covered with fruit since the branches start high enough we were able to put Scott’s technique of wrapping bird netting around the trunk to work. Easily well over a hundred pounds, maybe over 200. The only problem is the tree has gotten so tall that probably half the fruit will be unreachable without some death-defying ladder work.
These are delicious and definitely ripe with some yellow blush on many and seeds that are dark brown to almost black. I think last year the few I got I harvested around the end of August, so it will be interesting to see when they ripen next year. I’m guessing the drought (now mostly over) made them ripen earlier?
Can anyone tell me how long they will keep on the counter? Also how long if I can find some space for them in the fridge?
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do you have a brixometer? would be interested to see if they hit their potential early
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A few of my Shinseiki pears are also starting to ripen. My check for ripeness is to lift them up and ripe ones usually just break off from their stems.
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Look nice. I harvested mine at least a week ago, I think more like 2. They were quite tasty, but yours look riper so I’m sure will be even sweeter.
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Do you grow Asian pears in pots ?
Your shinseiki look great.
Anyway here are my Hosui pears. They’re in various stages of ripeness. I find it to differentiate golden brown vs greenish brown, especially when there’s still a bit of surround still on them. . They’ll all be good but the most golden ones will have that butterscotch flavor. Also it’s the weekend and I’ll be giving a bunch of these away to family.
The pull test is a good one, though a lot of times I pull a and the fruit spur comes with the fruit
There’s that one cracked one on the left. I find those ripen the earliest but have a very short window in which they can be eaten.
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They’re planted in the ground but I put a wooden boxes around the trunks to hold the wood chips in place. The Shinseiki ripes the earliest for me, the Hosui usually ripe a little later. The pears seem to have more bruises this year, not sure why.
