These Shinko Asian pears are huge and real sweet this year due to major thinning.
Tony
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Those look awesome. My Hosui pears looked pretty good, but not THAT goodā¦
TFN
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Wow, they look heavenly. How do you store so many fruit?
I wrapped each fruit with a plastic food wrap and stored in the fruit refrigerator. They can last for 4 to 5 months.
Tony
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Tony,
I may need a fridge for fruit only, too. Man, growing fruit is expensive!!!
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Can anyone tell me whether Shinko is any more fireblight resistant than other Asian Pears. Last year I had my very first total tree loss (kill) due to fireblight. 100% sure fireblight was the cause, and it killed it in phases until it finally got the whole tree (I think). Iām not certain what variety of Asian Pear it was because it was actually a mislabeled pear I bought to be a Euro pear. I forgot to order a new Asian Pear this year and hate to put in a full order just for one tree, but last night at a local store I trust which sells Freedom Tree Farm Trees I found a HUGE, beautiful potted Shinko pear tree for $12.99! Iād like to hear if anyone thinks it would make a decent Asian Pear here in fireblight heaven! ha. Thanks.
I had Shinko for 3-4 years. No issue. I removed it due to the quality of the fruit, small and bland.
However, other people from other areas away from the east coast love it, though.
Maybe, I did not give it sufficient time to mature and round into form.
Shinko is supposed to be blight resistant,
I recently planted some for that reason
I noticed in some old posts that you had said you were not happy with it, which really disappointed me! However, as you say, others in other locations seemed to be very happy with it. So like many things we all grow, it seems to work well in some places and not so well in others!
Thanks, @Hillbillyhort, that is great news!!! In fact, Iām going to take a long lunch today and go buy that big beautiful potted tree before someone beats me to it! Fireblight is such a strange disease. Some years it hits me hard, other years it barely strikes- even on the same tree. But in my experience it doesnāt follow any discernible ārulesā. For example, I read that it is supposed to be worse on years with a wet spring but the worst year I had it was in an unusually dry spring. Same thing with other factors that supposedly make it worse or better. It just seems to act completely at random! Oh well, maybe Iāll figure it out before I die, meanwhile Iāll just try to buy more resistant trees! Thanks again.
Did you wait for the fruit to have a nice aroma before picking?
I was reading that this variety should be picked when it has the aroma, I get the impression that they are mature about ā1 month - 1 1/2 monthsā after it can seem like they are ready, and a video that I just watched said that when they are mature they have a reddish tone, which is really a golden area with a reddish tone.
This year is my first year with a crop for this variety, so I will be learning by real life experience.
Oh man those look amazing. Grafted a branch of Shinko this year but might be a couple more years yet.
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I grafted Shinko on to āOHxF 87ā, during spring of 2023, and this year I have my first crop, of 6 pears. 3 grafts, 2 pears per graft. The root stock was well rooted, and well developed.
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Aroma? I donāt have good sense of smell but if the pears give out aroma, they must be very ripe. People enjoy Asian pears for its juiciness and crunchiness. You donāt want to pick them so ripe that they lose crunchiness.
As for coloring. My tree did not have full sun exposure. I am also in a colder, cloudier area. My pears would not have the same intense color like ones in sunny areas have.
If I recall, Shinko ripened here in late Sept. Yours may be in early to mid Sept. Pick one to try. If they still have starchy taste to it, they are not ripe.
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I have bought plenty of āChojuroā pears at local stores, that were crisp, crunchy, and juicy, that also had an aroma. Some Asian pears have an aroma at that point, I doubt that they all do.
Asian pears do best with a lot of chill hours, and maturing in the sun and heat, yet even here it can rain and or be cloudy for a week or two strait. Most of our property has no shade, and so ours will be nice and golden. We have a surplus of chill hours as well.
You are accurate about the maturing time here. I am estimating probably late August, Maybe Mid August, or early September. I have reached out to some people with a large Asian pear orchard based out of North Carolina, although since they donāt have Shinko, I am estimating when Shinko will mature in the area, in comparison to what they do have.
Thank you for your advice, and your response.
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