The best Asian Pears

General Fruit Growing
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A few update based on this spring:

  • My main Korean Giant has another year of very light flowering. The Shinko next to it, along the same wall, flowered profusely (but makes bland fruit), while the KG only has 5-10 flower clusters on the whole tree.

  • The Korean Giant branch that I have grafted onto 20th Century (in a sunnier spot) is covered with flowers. So, for now, I suspect that it is sun which is an important factor in bloom density, at least for KG.

  • Yaguang Li is very early, both in bloom and growth. While 20th Century is just about to bloom (a bit on the late side, as others are in full bloom), Yaguang Li is finishing bloom and has 3-4" of new growth.

  • I’ve got first bloom for a number of new (to me) Asian Pears:

    • Yaguang Li
    • Mishirazu
    • Jilin
    • Chojuro
    • Shinseiki

The first 3 were grafted from ARS 2 years ago, while the others were grafted last spring.

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