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["Christopher Mauchline" <mauch1@aol.com>]

Here's a bunch of links about Asian pears and all discuss ripening 
times.  Since most of them are not for mid-Atlantic regions, I would 
not use the dates themselves, but the relative ripening order might 
be useful.

I've had less luck w/ Asian pears - a fruit worm seems to attack most 
of my pears, and if I avoid that problem the deer take them.

Note that Korean Giant = Dan Bae = Olympic (all the same variety).

http://fruitsandnuts.ucdavis.edu/asnpr3.html

http://www.acnursery.com/pears.htm

http://www.raintreenursery.com/pollin_asianpear.html

http://www.goodfruit.com/archive/Mar15-00/feature10.html

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6

--- In nafex@y..., "Correnti, Andy" <andy.correnti@l...> wrote:
> 
>       Hi 
>       Can anyone enlighten me on the ripening time for Asian Pears,
> perhaps relative to that for Comice or Bartlett which I also have 
growing?
> The varieties of Asians I have are Chojuro, Niitaka, Korean Giant, 
and
> Hosui, all growing on Quince rootstock and bearing for the first 
time.
> There isn't much fruit to experiment with, but one that I knocked 
off
> accidently and ate had a nice texture and juiciness - the flavor 
was a bit
> weak and green so I think as of last week they were not ready yet.  
> 
>       My experience growing these asian pears for 2 yrs has been 
very
> good.  The only thing I had to spray for was plum curculio.  
Interestingly,
> the curculio seemed to only do their feeding on the asian pears.  
Whereas
> they do much more damage on my apples and european pears with their 
egg
> laying marks.
> 
>       So, any insight on the ripening time...?
> 
>       Andy Correnti
>       Collegeville (SE) PA
>       Zone 6b


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