Pear harvest 2023

[mayhaw9999]

Warren
I picked Warren this morning 9/19/2023. It, along with Magness and Jana’s Pear, are the family favorites. It has become a very popular pear here in North California. It commands top prices at the local farmer’s markets as well as by mail order from a grower in the East Bay area.

Here is a link to something I posted a while back. There are other threads if you are interested.

Is it worth it to grow the Warren pear

I just read this entire thread and thought I would add some comments as an older pear grower. To my mind there are several misconceptions about Warren and Magness that I would like to address. I’m from Mississippi and T.O Warren was my mentor at the start of my 40-year fruit journey. I was active in NAFEX and served as president, vice president and board member. So, I was involved in the early days of the Warren introduction and the controversy about whether Warren and Magness were indeed the …