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> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:25:57 -0500
> From: "Doreen Howard" <gardendiva@charter.net>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Two Questions
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>
>
> I asked this question last year or the year before, but I didn't  
> record the >answer.  How do you tell when an Asian pear is ready to  
> pick?  My 2-1 tree is >loaded with Korean Giants and Shinseikis.

Someone on gardenweb told me about this trick last year, my first year  
for Asian pears (Shinko):  Go out at night with a flashlight, and hold  
the light right up to the back of the pear pear.  Before it is ripe,  
it will be pretty much opaque.  When it is ripe, it will glow.  Worked  
great for me last year

Alex

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