To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Recommendations for Zone 4 pears for perry & wine
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:53:18 -0500
Donna
I'm curious why you say "any of the crunchy pears" would be good? I
made Pear wine with Kieffer this year & it turned out really well, tho
I'd like to find a way to have more character & finish.
~mIEKAL
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Kieran &/or Donna
<holycow@frontiernet.net> wrote:
> I think most of the perry pears come from England, so not much blight res
> nor hardiness. I don't think you'd have to worry about blight nearly as
> much as we do here. I think any of the crunchy pears would be fine for
> perry, I note that Burford is mentioned as possibly good for perry. I don't
> know about hardiness though. I'm very interested in the SD release 'Okolo"
> which ought to be plenty hardy and should at least start out crunchy. Get
> yourself some good hardy rootstock, get it in the ground and graft it to
> some hardy vars. See corvallis's website, I think they have a hardy pear
> list. Donna
>
>http://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=11372
>