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  • From: nbeaureg@student.umass.edu
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] When are Asian Pears Ripe?
  • Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:29:27 -0400


all caps is really a bummer to read.

ncb
zone 5
western MA

Quoting 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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