While visiting a buddy in Oklahoma earlier this month I picked a bunch of pears. Their firm but very juicy and flavorful. He can’t remember what kind of pear trees they are. Can anyone I’d them from the pic?

They may taste good but they don’t pass the “pretty” test. LOL

Are they kinda sandy or gritty? They kinda look like a sand pear

I would say the skin is a bit gritty. They are a very ugly pear for sure. Some are huge. All of them have incredible flavor. I canned 13 quarts the other night and have a few fresh left over. I’d really like to plant a couple of trees if I can figure out what they are.

You can propagate pear trees by cuttings. I had 6 pear trees root out of about 50 cuttings. They probably would of done much better, but I didn't pay much attention to them and they dried out a few times. I just cut new woody growth, dipped the cuttings in rooting hormone, put them in potting soil and kept them moist.

Keith

Might be a bartlett pear.

Nice job trapset. Love canned pears.

Not a Bartlett. Bartlett are your classic pear shape, smooth green skin turning yellow when fully soft ripe.

It looks alot like a keiffer but there are dozens of named varieties with similar background breeding as keiffer and similar look. It could also very well be a seedling tree of unknown parentage. Many of our named varieties are actually found farmstead or fencerow seedlings.

Interesting fact. Keiffer is a Bartlett x Chinese Sand Pear cross.

Good info, thanks all. He ordered the trees from a catalog 7 or so years ago but he can’t remember where.

What’s the best time of year to collect cuttings?

They sure look like the pears in your link yt30. Thanks

After they go dormant for grafting. Not sure on hardwood cuttings.

I believe that the way they propagate cultivar rootstock would work. The process is called stooling and it involves bending down branches and covered with soil to encourage the branch to root. But those are probably pruned low to allow that. You might try air layering where you wrap a branch with moist soil or peat and wrap it with something like saran wrap to encourage it to root. There may be a skin some bark root hormone step in there but I'm not sure.

If you do a rooted cutting expect to get a full size tree of around thirty foot tall. Grafting onto dwarfing rootstock will get a smaller tree. Also own root trees are slower to come into bearing.

Believe your right.

Looks like a hybrid of Bartlett and some sort of Japanese pear.

I took my cuttings in March. All the cuttings lived until it got warm in the Summer. The 6 that became trees had more roots than the ones that died, when it became hot and dry. I should have put plastic down, over the soil and kept them better watered and more would of made it. A plastic tent over the top may have helped too.

I have had very good luck with elderberry and grape cuttings.

None of the apple or peach cuttings I have taken have ever made it.

Keith

looks like a Patten Pear Tree variety of European descent not like the russian small round types Ural ones,
Dont worry about the brown spots or lenticels
those type of pears take a month to ripen after picking

all those peelings make for some fine bottled juice the next day

Most European pears used to be grafted to quince roots for dwarfing. I got quince roots if you need ‘em.

Those are good canning pears, I have 2 trees of them.
Rabbits and deer love them.
I like to peal and eat them.
Sorry, I don’t know the proper name.

Trapset I sent you a PM.

I don't know what kind of pears they are but there's a tree near here that we've picked the exact same pears off of for over 40 years. They will freeze good too, just run them through our apple peeler/corer drop them in the sink of water with some lemon juice just like apples so the they don't brown, drain and freeze them in bags. We use them like apples too in pies and crisps. We also make pear sauce out of them. Our boy ate a lot of pear sauce as a baby.