Largest / Best tasting pear

Yeah…i’m going to add one to my order this year. I’ve never grown Asian pears.

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Another large pear I’m growing is Karl’s favorite aka ewart. It’s fruit are just over a pound each https://www.jungseed.com/P/30825/Karl’S+Favorite+Pear+(Dwarf)

this is the pear tree I grafted several years and this year for the first time I will produce fruit.
according to her pear weighs 700 grams and some weigh 1 kilo, as problems, he says in the post of the forum is that sometimes the branches of the tree and sometimes simply pears tree fall break.

currently my pears not weigh more than 200 grams, I guess even have to grow much more.

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it would be interesting to know whether the giant pears are good to eat with knife (pears of table),always I thought that resemble those pears and quinces only serve to eat them roasted in the oven.

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Yeah, I’ve used the web often to read the description of some varieties.
Some years have not talked to this gentleman ago, but a few years ago sent free cuttings of all varieties and asked only one thing in return is that after a few years would you wrote an email by explaining if varieties were well on your land, the size of the fruit, the fruit quality and any other details, so gradually would have the knowledge of how the same variety behaves in different cities, different climates, different climates or different terrains

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I’m suspicious Turnbull giant is actually partially or completely Asian pear. I grafted it on my wild callery this spring and every graft failed due to incompatibility eventually. Had a similar experience with chojuro on parents of those rootstocks. The European pears I grafted to the trees on the second attempt all took ( some failed to late to regraft). I’ve read information on Turnbull from several different very good sources that state it’s just not that great of a pear. Korean giant though an Asian pear oddly loves the same rootstocks. The KG pears are said to easily grow to over 1 pound each. The KG are also reported to store until March since they are very hard and are yet sweet http://m.raintreenursery.com/?ref=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dkorean%2Bgiant%2Bpear%26fr%3Diphone%26.tsrc%3Dapple%26pcarrier%3D%26pmcc%3D000%26pmnc%3D00&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.raintreenursery.com%2FKorean_Giant_Pear_OHxF97.html. Plumblee appears to be a very large pear in some situations. They say it’s very Fireblight tolerant but I had one take a strike this year on callery and was killed back to the ground. I have a few other grafts of it doing great Does anyone grow the Plumblee Pear? - #4 by Bradybb. Plumblee was a very agressive grower on my native callery which I believe led to the FB strike. The callery ofcourse recovered. This next year I’m adding plumblee to ohxf333 to slow it down some and see if that helps. I suspect it could also be partially Asian pear because it sure grows like one.

Does anyone grow Atlantic Queen? I’ve heard that it is both large and hearty. I wonder how it tastes.

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Quill,
I’m not sure if I grow Atlantic Queen or not. One year I grafted a bunch of pears. One of the grafts was Atlantic queen. Not all the grafts took because the rootstocks were wild callery pears. The 4 trees that’s grafts took the tags were destroyed by water and ink bleed. Those trees have not fruited yet. Maybe next year I will get a pear from them and find out. Atlantic Queen is said to grow to 1 1/2 pounds. Madame Boutant is said to be a large pear. I grafted at the same time. A friend gave me some scions. The mislabeling is a set back but I will be able to figure out what pear is what when they come in production. Not a lot of information on this pear but here is a little about it https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/accessiondetail.aspx?accid=%20PI+255614 and http://www.cumminsnursery.com/pear.htm

I just picked these two Conference today. At least a third larger than last year. Used Surround soaked footies. Only 2 other pears on tree that are dwarfs. My first pic upload, hope it is right.

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Quill,
Those pears look great! They look more like Comice than conference. Suspect they are some of the best pears ever eaten!

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Quill,

Raintree has a beautiful photo of the Atlantic Queen pear, which piqued my interest in them. But I lost interest when someone here on this forum explained that they found their taste disappointing (I can’t remember who).

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Actually, I need to revise my response. Here is what @TheFluffyBunny said about Atlantic Queen:

"I cut mine down a decade ago. I might consider it again for the visual impact as an espalier. It is not exactly what I call a desert pear it is more of a dinner pear. By that I mean I find it worked best in a sandwich of a salad where it helped along some other foods. For example a couple of slices on a turkey, rye, lettuce, mayo and cheese sandwich is awesome. You are also talking one heck of large pear too. Like all pears they tend to ripen from the inside out so it is hard to tree ripen due to the size.

One nice thing is the squirrels and raccoons seem consider it a last resort so you will always have some if you have other pears around. Still and all there is nothing wrong with it."

Clark,
The link says “page not found”.
Thanks,
John S
PDX OR

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Thanks Matt. I knew there had to be a “catch”. I need to grow my pear patience as I have some nice ones in the wings.

Those pears really don’t look like the pears on my conference pear trees. I checked Google images and theirs don’t look like yours either. It may be a climate difference. I don’t know.
John S
PDX OR

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John,
I added another link hope that works for you. These were the only pictures I could find of madame boutant https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/imagedisplay.aspx?lnk=194341, Fruit image from National Clonal Gerplasm Repository, Corvallis, Oregon field collection., Postman, Joseph, USDA-ARS
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/imagedisplay.aspx?lnk=126691, Fruit of Madame Boutant. Photo taken on 08/31/2005 with Canon PowerShot S30., Postman, Joseph, USDA-ARS
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/imagedisplay.aspx?lnk=314415, , Postman, Joseph, USDA-ARS
Pear leaves all look a lot alike so it won’t be until I get fruit that I know what I’m growing for sure.

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Thanks Clark. That’s a good looking pear.

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Quill,
The summers are very hot and dry here typically which makes most pears very good. @Matt_in_Maryland is bringing up great points. Pears can vary significantly in flavor even 20 miles apart. Our pears taste excellent at my location but there are trade offs. What I’m getting at is that pear is still around because it’s a great pear in certain locations. Some places likely have to much rainfall to grow certain pears. I say this because on really high rainfall years I don’t care for certain pears grown here. Many wineries secret to growing great grapes for wine is the mineral content of their soil. The same is true for other fruits.

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I agree John, as the pears looked much more like typical Conferences. I don’t think it had an interstem. It is on Quince C in a whiskey barrel. Perhaps uneven watering?

I was just asking because I couldn’t figure out why and I would like to know why they look so different from other Conference pears.
John S
PDX OR

Definitely not Conference pears, you have Comice

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