Bumper crop of pears

Last 2 yrs lots of pears on tree. Very nice this yr. I'm freezing some and told a friend to come get a few bushells

Nice, Pears used to be high class crops, we have them all over Louisiana. In the 1500s and 1600s it was pretty popular to have pears I guess. We got a ton too, eat most, made sauce with some others.

What variety is that tree?

I lost my "Patten" pollinator, but still have a "Luscious" and a "Summer Sweet".

When do you pick? I cannot wait until,they're ripe, as they seem rotten if left in the tree too long.

Immake pear sauce with mine and freeze it.... NO sugar needed!

I just love pear cider! I'd be taking a few bushels to grind and press. Nature's bounty

Pear preserves on a hot buttered biscuit...Good stuff!

DANG !!!!!!!! LOVES me some pears !!! Only tree I have of bearing age is a Kieffer. Like eating a pear along with a tablespoon full of sand. Have some Bartlett trees trying to come along. But they aren't leaping or bounding.

I did have to cut some boards this afternoon to prop up the limbs on my yellow delicious apple tree. Never saw it so jacked full as it is this year.

I have several varieties planted for deer. I will be glad when they get as big as your tree.

It was here when I bought this place in 93.....Im thinking an asian pear but not sure. Very sweet

My mom used to make pear honey out of pears and pineapple.

Last year was a very good year for pears here. This year is surprisingly even better. I have 5 pear trees I planted in 2013 and 2014. I had to start picking pears over a week ago because my pear trees' once vertical branches are now on the ground. The first pears went for cider for me and butter for Diane. I picked 2 more buckets of pears, some apples, peaches, catawba grapes and elderberries today. I have 1 bucket of pears cooked soft and cooling on the stove, that will go through the Victorio soon. I have to pick and process more pears tomorrow.

Keith

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KeithC.... PLEASE talk to me about the Victorio!!

I've been peeling and coring these devils for the past 8 years.... Is this a straining system that allows you to quarter the pears and just cook them and strain the peelings and seeds out of them? I'll have to snap a 450 on my hand if that's the case!!!!

There ought to be a cooking/food forum on TMan.... I think it wold get a lot of traction.

I have noticed all the pear trees in this area are heavy with them this year also. There used to be an ancient pear tree on the farm here, but a high voltage line came thru and even though it was out of their right of way , they tore it down a couple of years ago. It was a deer magnet

European pear varieties need to be picked before they are fully ripe and then be allowed to ripen on the counter (in storage). If you let them ripen on the tree they will rot from the inside out. Asian varieties need to fully ripen on the tree.

That's exactly what it is. I just cut the stem and blossom end off of the pears. Cut the pairs in quarters. Put them in a very large sauce pan. Add a very small amount of water. Cook the pears until they are soft. Strain off the extra fluid for cider and run the pairs through the Victorio. It works great for apples, grapes and tomatoes too. You can even make mashed potatoes with it.

Keith

Very Nice big ole' tree

Mine are young...maybe next year I'll get a pear

You're right Keith last yr was a big yr also but this yr better pears without blemish. I smell coyote pee around it yearly when they are dropping.

https://www.squeezostrainer.com/

These pairs are currently ripe on 2 trees.



These 3 trees will be ready around the end of the month.





All of my pear trees' branches were nearly vertical before this season. I've picked a lot of the ends. I'm hoping I can get the branches to go vertical again.

I have an 8 and a 16 quart sauce pan of pairs on the stove cooking soft to make more juice, sauce and butter.

Keith

There is it's called "Cooking on the wild side"
Go to the top of this page, hit the HOP TO button and scroll down

My wife makes an amazing pear pie. Better than any Apple pie

Keith , do you ever find what as a kid we called sugar pears?
They were small green/brown only about 1/4 the size of most pears.
Mom canned then with spices , and haven't had them in over 50 years.
Never seen another tree like it either.

Ohio Wolverine, my great, great Uncle Ed, who was 106 when he died, had a sugar pear tree in his backyard in Piqua, Ohio that was several feet in diameter. His house was built in the early 1800s. I don't know how old the tree was, but it was likely very old. The tree got tens of thousands of tiny, brownish sugar pears on it. They were the best tasting, sweetest pairs I have ever eaten. The tree was very tall and wide too and the pairs would be 8" or more deep under it in places. The lower branches were so wide I could walk on them without having to hold onto anything. It was an amazing tree.

My aunt Linda, who lived in one of the two houses on the lot, disliked the tree because of allthe yellow jackets, which came for the pears.

There were massive apple trees too, bigger than almost any apple trees I have seen since.

Ed died around 1981. Shortly afterwards the property was sold and the house and probably the tree was bulldozed to build a very big house.

Keith

My dad always threw pears in the mix of apples when pressing cider. ..it was delicious

I wonder if these are the same pear.
They seemed to ripen in late summer , but don't ever remember them still on the tree as long as these.


https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/pear/what-is-a-seckel-pear-tree.htm

Once we had a water fight with my aunt, after we picked the pears. It was definitely before school started and probably late July or early August, because we were staying with our grandparents for the week.

I have some wild apple trees on my farm that usually ripen in mid-July and those apples by the pear tree were similar.

What are sold as sugar pear trees now have much larger pears with a red tinge. These pears were tiny, very pear shaped and brown. They were very sweet, almost candy like. I wish I had some clones of that tree. I suspect they would make great alcohol, especially if blended with the early apples.

Keith

Ohio Wolverine, the sugar pears were colored like a Bosc pear, but smaller and from the write ups, much sweeter. Is that how you remember them?



Keith

That's what I remember also.
Wonder if there's any pears like that any more.
They were sweet even before they were competely ripe.
I remember the leaves were smaller also.
That picture doesn't look like them. they had green and a purpleish brown like on them.
Like the picture in the link I posted , but not quite like that.
That was the only tree like it I've ever seen.

Today, I picked 22 gallons, around 2.4 bushels, of my later pears, to can. I think there is 80 to 90 gallons more of pears to pick.



How are everyone else's pears doing?

Keith

Pear butter, delicious

WS

Sounds smart. I have some planted, but they aren't doing well. Next year I need to find some good ones.The OP's picture is cool.

Thanks for the reminder. I need to check out an orchard to see if they had a productive year.

Oh yeah. I'd eat that about any morning and save the bacon for BLTs!

My dad was an expert with Bartlett pears (maybe the others ripen the same). He would pick them at a certain stage of green, wrap each one in news paper, put them in a brown paper sack in a dark closet.
They ripened perfectly. If you let the ripen naturally they are soft and grainy.

Diane and I went to some good friend's house tonight to can pears together. I took about 2 1/2 bushels of pears. The four of us processed a little over a bushel and a half of the pears, ending up with 41 quarts of canned pears. It was much more enjoyable to can together.



Keith

First time since moved here the pear tree was bare. Late frost nailed the blooms.

Couple brothers I grew up with made pear wine . Barrels of it !! People came from hundreds of miles to get it.

Right Keith,same here. We always slaughtered and butchered hogs and beef and chickens as a group too. Made it a good time.

Holy crap. I need to find some to order that will produce like that

They are Bartlett Pairs. I bought the 3 trees those pairs came off of at the end of season, at Rural King for I think $1.67 each. They were well over 6' high when I bought them and have had pears every year. I picked 14 in total of those 11 gallon baskets of pears.

Keith

I now have 5 pear trees
Added 3 for pollination this past summer

2 are 6 years old no pears yet

Bartlett, ok.

I was looking at a Pear Species from St. Lawerance Nurseries- it's called an ELY, cold hardy and drops late- they're always sold out. Anyone heard of Rifle Pears? or any recommendations for late drop pears?