Pear Harvest 2025

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@jrd51

Those look more like harrow sweet than harrow delight. Harrow delight ripens around august 1st on hot years in zone 6. Harrow sweet is in season now. They are very delicious. Harrow delight are slightly different.

Harrow Delight Pear

ARS grin offers Harrow delight scions. Harrow delight is a pear of interest to me because it grafts 100% on most every rootstock every time. That seemed like to big of a coincidence so I researched it’s genetics and it’s (Old Home x Early Sweet) x Bartlett. Since it has the famous old home genetics it grafted to every callery I tried it on. Old home x farmingdale is easily the most popular rootstock. I’m really impresed with the Canadian pear breeding program. That makes way more sense now bu…

Guess my estimated ripening date of harrow sweet. September 10th !

Harrow sweet pears aka HW609

Harrow sweet pears are a trade marked name. AC™ Harrow Sweet was developed from a cross of Bartlett x Purdue 80-51 (Old Home x Early Sweet). This same cross also produced Harrow Delight. - AC™ Harrow Sweet Pear on OHxF 87 - Cummins Nursery - Fruit Trees, Scions, and Rootstocks for Apples, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Peaches, and Nectarines. Many times i see people interested in these pears but usually for other purposes than facts.