This Asian Pear Tastes like Cotton Candy

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[@foodforestretirement2799]

I wasn't going to grow pears but I bought a Bartlett on a whim and found out I needed a pollinater so I picked up a Chojuro got a couple of fruits off each this year. Oh so glad I have these fruit trees now! Fill in a fruit gap for me as well 😌 Win, win, win 🏆

[@pfv1247]

Awesome. And your voice has a nice timbre.

[@jcomm120]

Gorgeous tree too♡

[@nmnate]

We're going to espalier some asian pears. I settled on chojuro and shinko, but I had a hard time deciding. Chojuro was absolutely my first choice though. I generally don't like european pears that have to "ripen" off the tree. I'll take a bosc or bartlett crispy, but that's about it.

[@zone7permaculture587]

Just got one at china town in philly today looking forward to the few fruits already on it getting big

[@TheFragrantBunch]

Asian pear is used in Korean cuisine to tenderize meat (i.e. bulgogi). It also adds a nice and sweet flavor to dishes :)

[@pdlister]

5 pears for $3.99 at Whole Foods. I buy tons when they're in season. Getting ready to buy our own land and these will be our first fruit trees. Thanks for the info.

[@bernardvecchio3704]

how long did it take before they gave fruit? Do you need a pollinator?

[@carlosrivera4660]

My wife favorite Ross. Delicious I have 4 trees. Also cold hardy.

[@cynthiaracimo1768]

Can it be grown in pots? Will it bear fruits?

[@iversonreyes3700]

I have brown pear I just don't know if this will bear fruit since it's just one ...

[@alanmercieca3086]

I have never heard of 'Chojuro' tasting like cotton Candy or bubble gum before, interesting, in different climates the same Asian pears can taste different. I am willing to buy Asian pears at the store, yet the high prices are motivation for me to grow them myself, so is the better taste and the better texture, since like you said, the store bought ones are picked too early, I have had some amazing store bought ones, yet that is very rare, and still not as good as home grown. Same is true of the European pears. What I am doing is I have two root stocks, and I am grafting a lot of different Asian pear varieties and a lot of European pear varieties to them. After I graft on the new varieties this year, those root stocks will have 5 different Asian pear varieties, and next year I will be adding one more Asian Pear variety that I was not able to get this year, making it 6 Asian pear varieties, it's a great way to try a lot of varieties with less land. To see what will do best in our climate, and to see which ones we personally prefer. Those same root stocks will have 4 European type of pears. Something keeps stealing the pears on our old pear tree ripe or not, I think squirrels, since they don't care if the fruit is ripe or not, they only care about getting seeds. Luckily most of the pears they have stolen were definitely not something I'd want to eat. Last year they might have been decent, yet I will never know, since they totally vanished. This year I am going to make sure that I protect the fruit, and protect it well, because this tree never produces well, and a few years I lost much of the fruit to disease, one disease called blossom blast, and another year to 'Cedar-quince rust'. I think that I will have much better production on the trees that I am making myself, than the nursery bought tree that I bought online, yet only time can tell. Then again it might just be because we have no boron in the soil in the city we live in, boron is a requirement for decent pear production, I sprayed the leaves with a boron foliant, yet it might have been too late, since our tree flowers right after the leaves open, only time can tell, yet if I spray the boron supplement at least 3 times a year then, if the boron deficiency is the main cause of few flowers and few fruit, then eventually the flower, and the fruit count should go up. Next year there would be way more fruit.

[@slamrock17]

Would it be possible to collect fig sap? I am curious to possibly try on one of my trees. I need some white horticultural paint. Maybe freshly collected fig sap could work?

[@RossRaddi]

I have no idea!

[@brandonparker4788]

What do the blooms smell like? Do they smell at all like ornamental pears?

[@CampingforCool41]

I mean, apple tree flowers are fragrant so I would expect pears to be the same

[@soronos8586]

Ohhh it has to be Arange

[@666Necropsy]

its a bit to late to prune now. i would wait till dormant.

[@ugg4223]

What’s the name of this Asian pear?

[@RossRaddi]

Chojuro

[@donovananderson396]

You don’t have squirrels to contend with? I have pear tree and not able to enjoy one.

[@arabellalunkes4532]

We trap the squirrels and relocate them before the fruits are in season. Once you have something they like they won’t eat anything else. We have a huge nut tree and we didn’t used to get one single nut.

[@tonygutierrez3504]

Use organza bags to cover the fruit. Helps me w squirrels and birds pecking at my fruit