What gorgeous looking pears!
I’m planning on grafting some Ayers this coming spring. I only have to wait about 3 years right?!
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Mine took a long time to produce here, but they are unstoppable once they get going. My area is delayed in growing everything. The quality of the fruit here is excellent.
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I went to look at my working list for FB resistant low chill pears and I appear to have deleted the file!
Hood tree is on the way. May graft onto it right when I get it if the scaffolding allows.
I have 3 OHxF 87 rootstocks ready to graft in the spring. At least one will be grown out for a 3 cordon espalier with 3 varieties.
I remember
Ayers
Potomac
Warren
Hybrid
Reddy Robin (if I can find scion)
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I have reddy robin but it is not fully fireblight resistant. It is very rare. My tree is small. Will let you know more about it in the next year or two once it fruits.
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So not-so-ready reddy robin. Not worth even trying a non-resistant variety.
Thanks.
I think the other 3 are plenty to start with next spring. I’m going to shelf thinking about them. Plenty of other rabbit holes to dive down.
Thank goodness not literally. The only animal I have that I need to worry about are squirrels.
And avian dinosaurs… A. K. A. Birds.
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That is a very good group to start with. Potomac has the longest chill hour requirement at around 600 the other 2 are very low chill hours. All excellent choices of pears. I would grow karls favorite aka ewart grafted on the same tree as warren. I do grow karls favorite on the same tree.
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Potomac might be a reach then. The winters are so varied here. We can go from 300 to 700+.
I think a few of the Harrow series might be possible, I’ll need to look at the patent info and see if anyone has the scion.
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Ayers reportedly is 150 - 400 chill hours
Warren is reported to be 500 - 600 chill hours
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I just reread the Harrow thread…well looked through it…
Are the Harrow pears patented? I see only one Harrow (Delight) on fruitwood Nursery’s site, so I’m thinking of they were all developed and released close together they would all be off patent. Or is that only applicable to US developed trees?
Anyway reading they are most highly FB resistant it would be great to find one on the lower chill side that would be worth growing.
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The harrow sweet and harrow delight both have fireblight this year. Harrow delight gets it worse. Hs is trademarked. HD is not under a patent or TM as far as i know.
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My Ayers took a long time to produce too. This year I got some really tasty fruit. Looked exactly like that picture.
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Is it somewhat acidic and awful? 
Pineapple pear has a bit of a nasty bite to it in my opinion. If it’s edible, I would think it could be something else.
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I need to see the calex end of that pear. Its close though some pineapple are more bell shaped. It looks pretty similar.
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Photo from today Feb 12 been in refrigerator all winter,
@snowflake , well it’s not the most flavorful at this point.
My friend that tried it after harvest in fall said “ not exceptional but good “
Now “ would say better than snow balls
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Not expecting miracle identification here.
Just wondering if it fits the description. - or miss labeled?
Ripened mid - late October.
A friends tree
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Mine ripen much earlier than that in 6a (ish) with around 4000 GDD. Some will separate cleanly in mid-late August. I wouldn’t call them good though. I tried to see if they would get better in storage, but no such luck. They might make pickles though. I should try that.
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My guess would be improved kieffer but it could be pineapple. It is hard to say by one pear. The picture of the tree looks like pineapple in the way it grows.
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