Selecting a variety of Asian Pear
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Comments (15)If you are going to get the Shinko, a good pollinator is Shinseiki. They bloom at the same time in my yard and my son-in-law's yard (both Houston). The shinko is good as long as you don't get too much rain near ripening. They will be bland with the rain.....dry periods good. Shinseiki is better in my opinion, but it needs a pollinator. Shinko fruits without a pollinator, but much more fruit with a pollinator. Shinko does get blight....I lost mine after about 8 years due to blight....it was bad that year. I replaced my shinko with Tennosui. First time fruiting last year. Was not impressed with fruit. Mine were not crisp and low flavor. Tree may still be too young. I prefer crisp pears and my favorite is Southern Queen, sweet, flavorful and crisp. I may replace my Tennosui with it's sister, Southern King if the fruit don't improve. The Akers (acres) Home pear is very good. It is excellent flavor and sweetness after a week or two off the tree. No problems with blight, but it does have rot problems. You may have to spray.....don't know about San Antone. I think the rot problem may be why it is not pushed much anymore here, but it is excellent. I pulled mine due to rot and it is a melting pear and I like crisp....See Morelooking for scions of 2 asian pear varieties
Comments (1)Nick Botner has them, see other recent thread on that. I doubt you will find any other source, those are unusual varieties I have never heard of. Scott...See MoreBest Asian Pear varieties
Comments (5)Sometimes it is the timing of the harvest that have a big effect on the taste, thus it could be misleading to taste them side by side. If these have peak flavors at the same time, then we can fairly compare, but oftentimes not happening that all types peak at the same time. Most times, the 20th century is on the bottom rank when it comes to taste comparison of my asian pears, up above it would be Shinseiki pears, near the top would be chojuro and hosui, that is, when accounting only the taste as I remember them from their peak flavors. Although not a single one of them are poor eating quality, and I would rank the least of my Asian pears to be better tasting than most of my ripe European pears. There are times that the 20th century is truly outstanding, like if I pick the fruits at around 11:00 pm, after the cool delta breezes have blown a chilly night on us, the taste are a very nice cold treat that compliments well with my Asian pear wine. The same also with very early morning harvest. I forgot to note which timing is better, but will do that comparison this year....See MoreAsian pears, Apple pears....???
Comments (6)campv: Stark's have a dwarf 'Hardy Giant' Asian pear dwarf supreme that they list as disease resistant. They say their other varieties of Asian pears are not disease resistant. Do you remember the name of the Asian pear that you have there? The pics of the 'Hardy Giant' show quite large pears but I'd expect them to be smaller here for us. fruitnut: I wonder if Stark's 'Hardy Giant'is similar to your Korean Giant or Olympic? I'd prefer firm/crunchy as opposed to juicy also!...See Moreswvirginiadave
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