Late drop pears

[Jordan Selsor]

Well Dan posted a thread about late dropping apples and got me researching late dropping pears for probably the 100th time! Pears and I seem to get along much better than me an apples!!!
So far I have keifer, moonglow, Ms laneene, and a couple grafted olympic that I will baby along this summer.
Wildlife group sells a Gate pear that is said to drop significantly later than keifer. Anyone have any feed back on this tree?
Any other late droppers that I am missing out on?
Winter food is defiantly a hole in my bucket I need to fill

 

[Neahawg]

I have MS Laneen, gate, Galloway, Gilmer christmas, and Becton all planted from the wildlife group some just planted this Dec the others last dec so no report yet on actual drop times but I'll know soon!

Also have multiple late droppers from GRIN ordered if they send pear scions out this year.

 

[Jordan Selsor]

I have MS Laneen, gate, Galloway, Gilmer christmas, and Becton all planted from the wildlife group some just planted this Dec the others last dec so no report yet on actual drop times but I'll know soon!

Also have multiple late droppers from GRIN ordered if they send pear scions out this year.

Keep us posted! I'm chewing on a last min wildlife group order.. Hmmmm

 

[gunfun13]

Interested in grafting? I know of a wild pear here in Michigan that's still holding onto a fair amount of golf ball sized fruit. Tree is absolutely loaded every year and drops slowly over several months. Was considering grafting myself if I can get rootstock and find space for a nursery at home.

 

[TMIL]

I have a few Doc's Special trees coming from Turkey Creek this Spring. They are supposed to be a bit later dropping.

 

[bcbowman]

Gunfun, I'd be interested in some scions from that pear, I even have a handful of seedling rootstock about 3/8 diameter I could swap you for them.

 

[Neahawg]

Keep us posted! I'm chewing on a last min wildlife group order.. Hmmmm

I think native hunter said his Galloway pear held into late Oct early Nov. Just in case you are wanting to make an order.

 

[CrazyEd]

I found some sort of wild pear near my house. The pears are about the size of a ping pong ball and it is still holding a few as of saturday.

 

[Jordan Selsor]

I found some sort of wild pear near my house. The pears are about the size of a ping pong ball and it is still holding a few as of saturday.

I have seen similar pears in my area. I wonder if the deer eat them?

I have a few Doc's Special trees coming from Turkey Creek this Spring. They are supposed to be a bit later dropping.

Whats the fruit characteristics of these? Not much info on them out there

 

[H20fwler]

Johantorp holds late.

 

[TMIL]

Whats the fruit characteristics of these? Not much info on them out there

You're right, there's not much info. A bit of info from a guy who has them producing:

http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php?t=861285

 

[RonDon]

I left a couple pears on my MS Laneenes and Gates this past year to see when theyd drop. They were still on the trees first week of November and then squirrels got them. Im in zone 8 so id think yours would hang later than mine.

 

[chickenlittle]

I don't know much about pears. As with apples, I have tried to minimize the disease problems I am bringing into my orchard. So I look for scab resistance and fireblight resistance if I can. I have planted a number of perry pears that I hope to be later ripening and scab resistant but I dont know about fireblight. Hope to make perry and cider someday so these fit for me.

From the GRIN, I did a descriptor search with fullripe set to greater than or equal to around 270. That gives full ripe at Corvalis OR at the end of Sept/ start of October. I added some of the disease descriptors to weed out the worst and looked at the description of the better ones. Quite a few pear rootstocks on it which were generally selected for fireblight resistance. I did notice that what they list as full ripe date can vary by 20 or 30 days for different years. Here are the ones I have saved for possible order.

https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1436234
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1436215
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1436230
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1436384
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1436338
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1436250
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1436659
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1436929
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1436727
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1436364
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1436356
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1436340
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1436648
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1436942
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1378301
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/AccessionDetail.aspx?id=1614195

 

[DrDirtNap]

Here's my Galloway in North MS still holding on to a few on Dec 10

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[Jordan Selsor]

Here's my Galloway in North MS still holding on to a few on Dec 10

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Nice tree! Thanks Dr Dirt!
How is the fruit on the Gate?
Hard pear similiar to keifer?
How your deer like it?

 

[DrDirtNap]

The fruit on the Galloway is harder than what you find on a Keifer but still not as hard as what you find on wild sand pears. As far as how the deer like them...it's hard to say. At this point I can't say that my deer prefer any of my pears. They do eat them but I wouldn't say that pears are a "preferred" food source. I'm hoping it's an "acquired" taste. I think I feed a lot more coons and coyotes than deer with my pear trees. My deer much prefer crabapples over pears.

 

[SURGICAL GRADE]

The fruit on the Galloway is harder than what you find on a Keifer but still not as hard as what you find on wild sand pears. As far as how the deer like them...it's hard to say. At this point I can't say that my deer prefer any of my pears. They do eat them but I wouldn't say that pears are a "preferred" food source. I'm hoping it's an "acquired" taste. I think I feed a lot more coons and coyotes than deer with my pear trees. My deer much prefer crabapples over pears.

Which crabapples have done the best for you in MS?

 

[DrDirtNap]

Which crabapples have done the best for you in MS?

For me Calloway has been the best. Dolgo is good also bit probably not as disease resistant as Calloway. I've got several other kinds planted now but my Calloway and Dolgos have been producing for several years.


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[Dan Wombles]

On my farm in western IL moonglow and burford pear start dropping in mid to late October. Im not sure how long of a period over which they would drop because I pick them for personal consumption

 

[aerospacefarmer]

I still have many Bosc pears hanging and already picked a bunch