Perhaps you can pick them when the first frost is expected, and see if they ripen indoors. They do all right here, in the Willamette Valley, ripening in October. A long wait for them, but this year it looks like I have about a dozen. It is a good year for pears in general. The tree was planted in 2014. I remember my excitement the first year my Shannon actually produced a few pears. And the taste, which I had heard about, was as good as described. But if that octogenarian sold them at the farmer’s market every fall, to a lot of people, either he had a lot of trees which were fairly old, or maybe they start making heavier crops when the trees are very old.
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