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["ROBERT W JUDY A HARTMAN" <hartmansfruit@msn.com>]

Just so you can see the difference what climate can do I am responding to this question too.  Here in western Washington the Korean Giants ripen about the last of October, varying a little each year by how much heat we have in October.  Checking the seeds is a good way to tell if they are ripe.  I do that and also give them the ole taste test.  Some varieties start dropping their fruit too and if that happens you better do some testing.  Sometimes fruit will preharvest drop too so you have to watch out for that.

 

Bob

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

From: Doreen Howard

To: North American Fruit Explorers

Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 6:06 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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