[NAFEX] Asian Pear ultra low brix

Doug Woodard dwoodard at becon.org
Thu Sep 6 16:53:55 EDT 2007


During the growing season if a cut is made into infected wood, the 
fireblight will be transmitted on the pruning tool. Disinfection is a 
pain, and with bleach can be rough on the tool if done often. I 
understand that if the pruning is done in the dormant season, the 
infection is not transmitted, but I'm not sure I know all the ins and 
outs of this.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada


Spidra Webster wrote:
> My neighbor has an Asian pear and has been giving me some of his  
> harvest.  I'm not wild about pears in general, but like European  
> pears better than Asian.  Most people like European pears far riper  
> and sweeter than I do.  I actually like them crisp.  But these Asian  
> pears are the lowest  sugar pears I've ever eaten.  It's more like  
> eating vegetables.  I don't know whether that's because he's  
> harvesting them too early (the tree has fireblight and I alerted him  
> to that so he's been pruning things) or what.
>
> I'm pretty broke right now due to having taken a month off for  
> surgery and recovery so I can't turn my nose up at free food. Does  
> anyone have any serving ideas for making these pears more  
> pleasurable?  Lemon and brown sugar?
>
> Spidra Webster
>
> Zone 9b Berkeley, CA
>
>   




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