Pear tree master

[TheOldOak]

My 10+ year old Kieffer pear tree had a bumper year, again. First five gallon bucket full. Would estimate there will b at least 10, five gallon buckets by end of September. First bucket was from last two storms that blew through and knocked these off. Note how the branches are all hanging down now, four years ago they were growing straight up.

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[TheOldOak]

Pear palooza.

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[TheOldOak]

Same tree.

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[TheOldOak]

Here's the first of many buckets to come.

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[Doe Shooter]

You're doing something right!The limbs look close to breaking. I'm having a good year with my seckel pear.

 

[g squared 23]

Very encouraging. Put one in the ground last year, but now might have to add another...

Supposedly they have some degree of self fertility too.


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[Native Hunter]

That's a good heavy crop.

I would set those green ones back and see if they ripen, even though they fell off early. If they don't ripen well for human consumption, I bet the deer would still eat them.

PS: I've never understood why some people say a Kieffer doesn't taste good. They are a little hard but I like pears that way. The sweetness and juiciness is great.

 

[suburbhunter]

My 10+ year old Kieffer pear tree had a bumper year, again. First five gallon bucket full. Would estimate there will b at least 10, five gallon buckets by end of September. First bucket was from last two storms that blew through and knocked these off. Note how the branches are all hanging down now, four years ago they were growing straight up.

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[TheOldOak]

Hahaha. You know it's been a good year when you have to beat the pears off with a stick to keep limbs from breaking! Some of those limbs are over 15 feet up. Kieffer's do soften and sweeten up if you just give them a little time. More than we can eat though, so deer will get their share.

 

[THE LLC]

What you gonna use them for? I like mine made into preserves.

 

[TheOldOak]

Probably eat most of them. Maybe try them in a pie if I can talk my wife into it. Never had pear preserves.

 

[THE LLC]

Buddy you are missing a treat! Home-made biscuits and pear preserves? Holy cow!!

 

[Flo1919]

Congrats! I found the best thing for my Keiffers was to stop trying to train them. We can ours. Great with cottage cheese or pear crisp. Eat them a lot in the winter when we are missing good fruit.

 

[Triple C]

I've got more that a dozen of the most beautiful, 20 to 30ft tall Keiffer pears you've ever seen. I must be in no-man's land down here with late frost cause I've yet to get more than a few pears off of any tree since 2011. Full of blooms every year and then about mid April seems we always get that late frost that just wacks em. Didn't help that most of them are planted in lower lying areas.