I noticed 2 different pears under the “red pear” sign. The other was a slightly red green anjou like.
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Delicious?
Gonna give it another day or 2:) will update
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Hi Roman:) thank you for posting the pic of the pears on tree! I bet they are phenomenal grown at home.
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Hello noogy,
I’ve had this variety for 2 years and I think it’s very easy to maintain. It has had fruit both years.
Roman,
Thank you for the comments. I see you’re in Switzerland. What types of disease pressure do you have there?
I see the leaves are healthy.
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Hello,
Yes, the Starkrimson pear is very healthy, it doesn’t need any sprays for me!
The fire blight came 15 years ago, it was bad back then.
But we have had a very calm situation with fire blight for 10 years now.
But pear decline is everywhere. There are varieties that seem to be immune, so I’m looking for many pear varieties to test
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Interesting. Have you tried any of the Italian Moretinni pears? Visiting Europe for me entails spending time to get to know the local climate, produce and the people 
Starkrimson (Kalle, Red Clapp’s Favorite) is delicious; we had a bunch of people over for Thanksgiving and they all did a taste test between bartlett, red clapp’s and comice and red clapp’s was the favorite by far.
It is an early pear and the supermarkets here seem to have run out this week.
Buttery and our teenage girl said “it just tastes really good”
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Two more votes for Red Clapp’s Favorite here. I’m definitely getting it grafted.
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I read that it might be very susceptible to FB, but I haven’t been hit yet. Of course “resistant” moonglow gets it.
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“Resistant” means fire blight “corks off” in older wood, usually, rather than killing the entire tree (as it usually does in resistance trials using Bartlett as the control.)
I cut off many feet of moonglow FB each year, so there’s that. It sure doesn’t seem resistant to me… but then I haven’t let it continue spreading to see if the whole tree will die. Of course the fruit does’t taste that great anyway, so maybe I should try it out. Then I can replace it with something better,
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“,usually”
Got rid of mine. Couldn’t get it to ripen right and like you didn’t think it tasted that great.
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Ok. I must confess to Dragonfly that I succumbed to the idea and ate one Friday. Meh. Predicatably dry, sme sweetness. Todayp they are luscious, super sweet and excellent. Better than Bartlett. Pronounced canned pear flavor.
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Wonderful news…I keep going back and forth about adding Red Clapp’s Favorite to my order…sigh…
Nice looking pears!
Get it. My wife wants nothing else