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["Doreen Howard" <gardendiva@charter.net>]

My grafted two-fer Asian pear tree is loaded this year with Stark's Giants (Korean Giant) fruit.  The grafts have one Shinseki fruit.  All bagged and they look terrific.  How do you tell when Asian pears are ripe?  The tree produced one pear  last year, the second season in the ground, and I arbitrarily picked it when it looked yellow.  It was a bit over ripe, lacking some of the crunch, but still very good.

Doreen Howard

IL-WI Border

Zone 4b-5a