No particular disease issue so far. It’s very possible due to my step up the spread schedule. Way less pear disease occurs in my yard.
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Every pear can be called fragrant but Tsu Li and Dangshan Li are not THE fragrant pears. The real fragrant Kola pear is quite unique and I don’t think you can buy any real Kola pears in the US now or probably after 2010 because I haven’t seen a real one for a long long time. All you see in the Asian stores today are some kind of hybrids - bigger, coarser, larger core, less fragrant.
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Korla is a city… and Xinjiang is a region.
Unless this city of Korla has planted one cultivar that yields 500,000 tons of the same pear…
I think saying Korla pears is like saying Georgia Peaches.
Perhaps there is one pear that is named Korla in honor of where its grown… and maybe it is the best?
Probably more likely that that city in that region gives the best results i think.
Korla looks to be similar to the PNW…where the best US pears and possibly the best pears in the world are also grown.
If there is a cultivar called Korla it must be over 1000 years old.
Which kinda matches the narrative of other euro/chinese pear crosses that we have discussed. Just grown in the perfect region.
The USDA classifies Fragrant pears by one term.
Pyrus ×sinkiangensis Yü
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The authentic Korla pear can only be grown in a small region of Korla City, which is also located on the Silk Road. So most of the Korla pears in the market are fake.
So who knows where this beautiful pear was from originally. Could be an Italian dude or a French dude throwing his rotten comice pear in a nearby oasis, and a Chinese dude throwing his Pai Li core a year later.
Vidalia Onions can only be grown in Vidalia Georgia.
I hear you though and i get it.
I will never be able to grow a Korla pear because i dont live in Korla City China.
I will never be able to grow Xinjiang pears because i dont live in the Xinjiang province.
I have a couple of choices for ‘Fragrant Pears’ that i can grow i think here in the US.
But if i grow a Chinese pear that has a very nice fragrance/aroma and has the appearance of both a Chinese pear and a Euro pear i may be able to tell myself or someone else that its a ‘Fragrant Pear’ even though its not classified as a ‘Fragrant Pear’.
Like others have said Yulu is a cross of Korla and Snowflake…which must mean that Korla is a cultivar…as well as the city its grown at.
Maybe Yulu is better.
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One thing that I find confusing about the different ‘flowering groups’ (‘pollination groups’), is that it seems like each variety falls in to at least two of them, it seems that your ‘Small Yellow’ falls in to 3 to 4 of them depending on the year, which would mean that it falls in to several blooming seasons each year. Does this cause ‘Small Yellow’ to loose a crop, or greatly reduce a crop some years.
Yes we can lose a crop on any or all pear types but it depends on stage of blooms as to damage.
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