Betsy,
There's an 'Improved Kieffer' that someone(Clark DeLisle, maybe?) sent me a
few years ago. Is it different from the original, a budsport, or a
seedling with similar but ?better? quality? ... I don't know...
There are other 'sand pear' hybrids out there - like Garber, and, I
presume, Orient, Pineapple, etc. - and offspring of those hybrids crossed
with 'more desirable' European or Asian pears... like Ayers, Douglas,
Dabney, Mooers, etc.
Here's the NCGR Pyrus catalog of fireblight resistant varieties:
https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/20721500/catalogs/pyrblres.html
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 10:33 AM Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>
wrote:
Hi folks,__________________
My Kieffer pear has not borne fruit for years due to a lack of
pollinators. But this year, Carpenter bees and some miner bees helped us
out. Our Kieffer tree bore a bumper crop in 2020.
But this is my question: Now that I seek to buy a second Kieffer, the
variety descriptions all state that they ripen in October, some say into
November.
In my orchard in 2020, the pears ripened in August-early September right
after Harrow Delight and before Potomac.
What gives? I bought this tree from Stark Brothers about 17 years ago. I
had not noticed this discrepancy before. Are there different varieties
of 'sand pears' called 'Kieffer' circulating out there?
Thanks for any insight on this.
Elizabeth Hilborn
Zone 7a, central NC
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