TO-30 and Ferguson wagon earning their keep...

[pomester]

Asian pears - Korean Giant variety, AKA 'Olympic'. Most are picked into 10 bushel bins, but I needed a few for sales tomorrow and Saturday.

A pleasant day today for fruit harvesting. It's been a rough season to this point.

 

[Richard G.]

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Asian pears - Korean Giant variety, AKA 'Olympic'. Most are picked into 10 bushel bins, but I needed a few for sales tomorrow and Saturday.

A pleasant day today for fruit harvesting. It's been a rough season to this point.

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Those are nice pears.
There were 2 old pear trees on our place when we bought it in 1977.
They were 50 years old then.
The produced for another 20+ years and died off.

 

[a49deere]

Dang! Either you have a small hand, or they are some big azz pears!!

 

[RedMF40]

Beautiful fruit. At my old place the asian pears did best out of all the fruit trees I planted. Cherries did well, too. Didn’t spray, everything turned out fine.

 

[pomester]

Those are nice pears.
There were 2 old pear trees on our place when we bought it in 1977.
They were 50 years old then.
The produced for another 20+ years and died off.

I propagated the trees and planted this block of pears in 1991. 35 years old. A few trees missing or in decline, but most still pumping out spectacular fruit. The best horticulture for which I have been responsible. And the only good looking fruit crop on the farm this year. The weather has been unfavorable in several regards, tho we never got dry.

 

[pomester]

Dang! Either you have a small hand, or they are some big azz pears!!

Hands are broad enough, but fingers short. Gotta play drums rather than guitar.

 

[pomester]

Beautiful fruit. At my old place the asian pears did best out of all the fruit trees I planted. Cherries did well, too. Didn’t spray, everything turned out fine.

Asian pears are pretty straightforward, the biggest key is to get the crop load reduced to an appropriate level. They will happily set way too much fruit and produce huge numbers of tiny fruit.

 

[Richard G.]

I propagated the trees and planted this block of pears in 1991. 35 years old. A few trees missing or in decline, but most still pumping out spectacular fruit. The best horticulture for which I have been responsible. And the only good looking fruit crop on the farm this year. The weather has been unfavorable in several regards, tho we never got dry.

You have done well Sir.

 

[37chief]

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Asian pears - Korean Giant variety, AKA 'Olympic'. Most are picked into 10 bushel bins, but I needed a few for sales tomorrow and Saturday.

A pleasant day today for fruit harvesting. It's been a rough season to this point.

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Looks loke a good crop. Do you water them often? Stan

 

[RedMF40]

Asian pears are pretty straightforward, the biggest key is to get the crop load reduced to an appropriate level. They will happily set way too much fruit and produce huge numbers of tiny fruit.

That’s interesting to know; I was always impressed by the quality of the fruit, considering how little effort I put into it.

BTW my Massey Ferguson 40 with a Ford loader keeps going. It’s my main tractor, has the Continental Z134 engine and hi-Lo transmission.

 

[Dick L]

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Asian pears - Korean Giant variety, AKA 'Olympic'. Most are picked into 10 bushel bins, but I needed a few for sales tomorrow and Saturday.

A pleasant day today for fruit harvesting. It's been a rough season to this point.

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That looks great and I love pears. When I bought the farm in 1962 the back yard was an orchard that had been let go. It had one pair tree that produced well without any care. My late wife canned many quart for several years. The ripe pears would drop and cover the ground and draw flies. We cleared it all out. Dixie does not care for them. My one daughter has a box of giant pears sent to me most years that I eat out of hand.








that made

 

[BillinCentralMO]

Dang! Either you have a small hand, or they are some big azz pears!!

Actually , he has a pear of hands.

 

[a49deere]

Actually , he has a pear of hands.

good one!!