I would be more interested in the varieties you removed. My trees are all either last year or current year grafts so I won’t see fruit until next year.
how is the flavor? does it need a particular pollinator?
HI Seattle:)That grouping should provide sufficient diversity to have your pollination covered. And those are probably the best out there.
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1.12 Pound Shin Li. Biggest pear I grow. Might be some bigger ones still on the tree. This one got hit on the top by a bee.
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I’m glad you mentioned Raja. I grafted some of that, after hearing rave reviews from Fruitwood Nursery. I ordered several different Asian pear scions from them last spring. All took except for Tennesui. This is a stock photo of Raja. Some photos show a round pear. And others - more ‘pear’ shaped. I sure hope mine looks this good! I am still waiting for fruit from the last couple of years of grafts.
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Lets see… Shinko (lack of good flavor), Yoinashi (pretty good but not quite as good as others), Koyamo (bland), Shin-Li (watery but almost kept as it is much later so spreads out harvest), Sueri Li (odd skin bumps and odd flavor most years), Meigetsu (bland), plus a few others I can’t remember now and some seedlings that were no good.
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I have these grafted so far.
Chojuro
Daishi Li
Douglas
Early Yellow
Harvest Queen
Hosui
Kieffer
Ledbetter
Magness
Plumblee
Potomac
Shinko
Spalding
Very Late (Lucky)
Warren
Winter Nellis
Ya Li
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Any comments on the flavor of your Shin li?
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@pomegranny and I tried a niitaka pear yesterday and both came up with coconut or Pina colada taste. The most flavorful of those we tried.
Subarashii Kudamono
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Anyone has pics of Da Sui Li, your own pear, not pics from nurseries.
Often, nursery pics are copied from one another and when they are wrong, many are wrong.
@tonyOmahaz5 , @PharmerDrewee , et al.
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This should be Daisui Li - but, as deer ate my pop-can labels off the first year, it could be Shin Li or Tsu Li, as all were grafted at the same time, in the same row.
(Edit)And… while I thought I’d IDed it as Daisui Li several years ago… I’m leaning more toward Tsu Li, now…
Last fruits on the tree, and smaller than most. Stays green quite a long time, and peel has a rough, almost sandpapery feel.
While I’m at it, I have this one branch in a multivariety tree producing these pears. Long ago like st the ID, but possibilities include Atago, Okolo, Yoinashi - just based on varieties that I remember sticking on there at one time or another. I’m leaning toward Atago…anyone care to opine? I don’t recall this fruiting before, but it’s bearing pretty heavily, and the pears are really sweet…reminded me, on first bite, of sugar cane I chewed as a kid.
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Yoinashi ripened in August in Somerset KY just after Bartlett.
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I don’t have Atago, but it sure looks like the pics I’ve seen. What is the taste hitting on?
I have Dashiu li but I didn’t take pictures. It is not my favorite pear, nothing impressive about it. If I found any picture from last year. I will post it here
Tippy, I had to chop my Daisui Li tree this summer. It was heavily infected by fireblight. Its sister and neighbor, Shin Li, had 1 strike that dried up on its own on the other hand.
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@Lucky_P , @IL847 and @PharmerDrewee ,
I don’t think my Dasui Li is the real McCoy. It is yellow with no hint of green or greenish. It is small, only 3 oz.
I wonder what it really is.
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Not many smooth yellow varieties. Shinseiki, 20th Century?
I have both 20th and Shinseiki. Their skin is thinner and smoother than this one .