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["lester davis" <lhdavis8@knology.net>]

KOREAN GIANTS USUALLY RIPEN IN MID-GEORGIA SEPT 7-10.  WITH THE HEAT

THIS SUMMER A FEW DAYS EARLIER.   THE BEST WAY I'VE FOUND ON ASIAN

PEARS IS  CUT INTO THE CORE, IF THE SEEDS ARE BLACK OR NEARLY BLACK

THE FRUIT IS RIPE.  I WILL BRING SOME "SHOW-AND-TELL" KOREAN GIANTS

TO THE CLEMSON MEETINGS, THEY WILL BE ABOUT A WEEK SHORT OF RIPE

BUT WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR TASTE TEST.

 

LESTER H. DAVIS

----- Original Message -----

From: Doreen Howard

To: North American Fruit Explorers

Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 8:06 PM

Subject: [NAFEX] When are Asian Pears Ripe?

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

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