The pears you may not have heard of and should consider growing

You asked in a post how is the LeCont pear? I don’t think I saw an answere. I have one that fruited for the second time this year. It’s been a slow grower for me. It acts like it’s on dwarfing root stock, but I got 25 pears off of it this its third year in ground. It’s very similar to Golden Boy which I bet is its improved seedling. Classically pear shaped yellow fruit with red blush, fine texture, robust flavor, not super soft but not hard either. It’s meaty, not melting and not super juicy but juicy enough. The skin is a bit tough. The one pear I got off of it the year before last was huge, but the 25 I got off of it this year were half the size I got off the golden boy tree that’s twice as big but the same age. It’s a good pear, but Golden Boy is so similar to it but bigger and better that I don’t know why you would need both if you have other pears for pollination.

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