Late Drop Wild Pears

[Teeder]

My wild pear is still dropping nicely. Enough every day to keep the deer coming back. These little buggers stay hard on the tree and don't ripen until they are on the ground a few days. I believe that's why I never have problems with coon or bear damaging this tree.

 

[The Fishman]

How did you acquire the tree?

 

[Teeder]

It was here when I moved in 22 years ago. It's growing in a wood line close to where a huge old Bartlett used to be.

 

[SwampCat]

Coon will eat my pears three months before they get ripe - when they are hard as a rock. They eat every pear

 

[Hoytvectrix]

There are two varieties of wild pears by our farms in Northern MO. We have been watching them for 40+ years. One is golf ball size, the other is closer to a Bartlet. Both have amazing flavor and start dropping around the end of October. I have been waiting for some of our other pears to get big enough for me to graft on some scions.

Of all the pears we've planted we have yet to have one produce a fruit. These wild types have sprouts popping up and producing in just a few years (but of course, not on us).

 

[Hoytvectrix]

I managed to get some photos of these this year. I asked my Dad about these and he says there have been these two types of pears on this hill for 50 years. These photos were taken yesterday in Northern MO.