Tasting and Comparing All The Pear Varieties I'm Growing 

"The season could be one day, as long as I get to eat this for one day, it will be worth growing". I am on the planning phase to plant two pear trees in our backyard. I am sold on choosing 'Moonglow' as the first. :)

in my old hometown of Fredericksburg Virginia, in the center of historic downtown is a grove of pear trees and is on public land and is completely accessible to anyone, one year i collected two grocery bags full of pears and they were absolutely delicious 🤤 as well as pear trees there are apple trees and cherry trees growing right next to the sidewalk in certain areas

one of my favorites and generally under appreciated fruit. pears can be really phenomenal. 'soft' pears are such flavor bombs when ripe. Great vid, maybe I've finally plant a pear tree, Moon Glow perhaps...wonder how they'd do in my climate, near front range in Colorado.

Don’t buy fruit trees or fruit plant from Lowe’s. 3 trees, figs, and berries over a couple years (8-10 years ago) not one of them were true to the tag and 2 apple trees turned out to be crabapples. My white Marseilles fig turned out to be a Chicago fig. I now buy from Starkbros and have been very happy with all the plants and trees I’ve bought.

I planted all those varieties this year and I did think something was wrong when some leaves curled thanks!

Thanky for sharing 👍Pears 🍐 🍐🍐 are so delicious. I have some pear trees in my garden as well.

Thank you for this video. I planted 6' moonglow , kiefer , D'Anjou , luscious & pinapple pear trees last year. Hoping this year i can taste them all.

I have a Bartley Pair, 2 year old tree, so I guess it’s really a 4 year old tree. I had 1 tiny pair this spring but a critter knocked it off. I’m thinking about getting an Asian pear. I line the crispness of them, but that Summercrisp sounds delicious

I'm not a pear lover, but my opossums absolutely go nuts for them, so I buy whatever is cheapest for them. We did plant an Asian pear tree when we bought this place in 2015, and in just 3 short years it was covered in fruit. That first year we had a really good harvest (it's 3rd year bearing), but someone came onto our property and picked the whole tree clean of pears!!! Those pears sold at the farmer's market for like $3 or $4 EACH! We did not get to enjoy ONE that year! The next year they got some sort of blight and stopped developing when they were marble size. Same the next year, and then our crab apples got the same blight, so I called the Extension office, sent photos and was told that the Cedar tree in our front yard had cedar-apple rust or some other related Gymnosporangium fungus. How to combat it? Cut the tree, but if there are any other trees within I think they said a couple of miles, you cant grow pommes. So, we cut that pear tree down. The one saving grace is the hummingbirds nest in the cedar tree, and we put that above our enjoying a pear in importance.

I’ve noticed for a bit how you changed your tag line from GO BIG OR GO HOME…. TO …. GROW BIGGER… I just loved the first one, cuz I made the connection as my parents and all my siblings were born in the Mitten! All my extended family is there as well, but no matter what, you continue to teach, inspire and be the POSITIVE spark I love to have in my ear while gardening! Thanks Luke and all y’all, ❤ from Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I love Bartlett and D'Anjou pears! But I like them very ripe but not mealy.

This is a very good video for someone in a suitable climate for a lot of the standard pears. I live in SE Georgia, Hardiness Zone 9 A, and can only count on about 500 chilling hours. Of the varieties you mentioned, the only one that would tolerate the fireblight pressure is Moonglow, but I don't really get enough chilling hours for Moonglow. My top two for the Deep South are LeConte and Southern King. I will mention some others in a bit, but these two are excellent, different enough from each other and bloom together. LeConte has a lot of the qualities of the Moonglow. Here it ripens in late June or early July. Like Moonglow it's kind of slow growing even when not on a dwarfing rootstock. (Dwarfing rootstock won't work in the SE Georgia climate at all.) It's very resistant to fireblight, and easy to maintain at a size where you can remove any strikes that developed. The pears need to be picked while they are still firm and allowed to soften inside or they go mealy. Southern King is the closest we can come to growing Seckle. Like Seckle its kind of a small pear with a bright red blush and a super high sugar content. It ripens after LeConte, July. It's my sweetest pear and my favorite of the ones where the trees are commercially available. Another great pear to grow is Baldwin which is a simisoft pear. It has a lot of qualities similar to your summer crisp, but is super fireblight resistant. Like your summer crisp it grows fast and wants to make a huge tree. The skin on the pears is tough. Baldwine is the latest ripening of my European type pears. I didn't list it with the other two because it doesn't bloom with them here. It blooms super early. A good soft pear to plant with it for a polinizer is Acres Home which has a lot of the same qualities as LeConte but isn't quite as good in my view. Acre's Home overlaps ripening time with LeConte but starts ripening earlier here. Another one I will mention is Tennosui which is a hybrid with fruit qualities of a good Asian pear when firm and a European pear when soft. The downside to it is that I don't know of a commercially available variety which reliably blooms with it and is at the same time fireblight resistant enough to take SE Georgia. I had a Scarlet which bloomed with it, but fireblite killed my Scarlet last year, and lots of other folks I know in similar climates had the same experience with it. This year I will find out if its self-fertile because I don't have another mature tree that will bloom late enough to bloom with it. I have two young Savannah pears which will bloom with it, but that strain is not commercially available. Maybe the best pear I've ever eaten is a Savannah pear. Truly fabulous, but it's a regional strain that isn't carried by any nurseries that I know of. It kind of reminds be of a Bosc pear, but it's better than any Bost that I've tried.

Thanks for this video! I have a bare root Moonglow on order for late Fall/ Winter planting in TX zone 8a. Im so excited& you have confirmed this yummy cultivar for me!🍐

Thank you!

Squirrel!

Found a big Jesuit pear tree this year out wood stomping I have saved every single seed and plan on planting them all over the place in areas I forage regularly. Also doing this with a ton of paw paw seeds I got right now lol.

I am keeping my pear trees, all my fruit trees short, like 8-10 feet. I planted Hood and Florida Home in the spring. Few varieties grow here in south Texas because we need low chill hours.

My pears are half and and kinda hard how much longer until they get soft and full size. Kinda excited lol thanks

I do love pears and tried to grow a bartlett tree from Stark Brothers but it didn't make it. I feel like the drainage isn't good where I planted it so if I try again I will build a 4X4 foot raised bed for it. Plus Stark Brothers refunded my failed tree. I want to try seed starting but saved seeds and haven't tried that yet. I think I love you Luke more than pears because of all the great work you do.

Wow! Your fruit trees are producing like crazy! I don't really like pears because they make my mouth dry but you are really getting a good harvest!

I just canned 25 quart pears

Went to Costco today and they had bareroot fruit trees in stock. Saw they had the Moonglow pear and got myself one based on your recommendation. Fingers crossed.

I remember you planting these trees. I'm growing Moonglow and Ayers standard size trees and they now have fruiting spurs. There is a transition toward Asian pear trees in standard and dwarf sizes because dwarf trees fruit sooner and are more manageable. Its my intention to top my large pear trees in July to limit their size to 10-12 ft as picking fruit high up can be dangerous. OHxF-513 rootstock or the OHxF-333 rootstocks are a more manageable size under 15 ft tall. I'm also looking at disease resistance in my fruit trees, and Genieva rootstocks can add some resistance with apple trees.

Just wonder how deep or wide pears roots expand? I have very limited space, can I plant pears close to the house? We love pears just like you. Thanks

Where did you get your fruit trees from?

sound effect for black squirrel!! classic!

Love pears! I HAVE TO have my pears soft though. I’ve been really liking the red bartlett/ red d Anjou variety lately

My Comice pears are 2 weeks into cold storage right now. Many European pear varieties will not get full flavor or ripeness without an extended cold period during fruit maturity. 30 days for Comice’s case and almost 60 for D’Anjou! Might be worth comparing taste and texture between cold storage ripened and straight off the tree.

I'm surprised you're not tackling Asian pears. They do really well in your area!

Guten Morgan i bought two pears late last night 🌙 at wal-mart and they are a tan / i will say tan looks like a tear 😢 drop what one is that? And i found you on RU-vid if you are wondering 🤔 💭 Have a good day.

how far apart do you recommend planting new fruit trees in northern Illinois?

I’m in zone 4-5 Michigan with extremely sandy soil on the west side of the state. I’m rural on the edge of the National Forest and am wanting to small orchard. But I have to grow most garden plants in pots because the soil drains too quickly. Are there special banking/mounding or amendments that could improve my trees chances at establishing in my dry soil? Something for this winter I hope. I’m sure many people will benefit from what you come up with. Thank you.

other videos on pears stated a pear ripens off the tree?

Barlett is my favorite 😍

How do bosc pears do in Michigan and does moon glow work as a pollinator for bosc... im going to look on Google but any info would be great

Do you have some care recommendations for fruit tree newbies??

Luke, how do you take care of the Japanese nettles on your fruit trees? I’m in Caro, Mi

I waiting for garlic sales in store. Am I missing them? Cannot find.

Don't hesitate to add pears to your apple cider for freezing--fantastic! 😋

This is another one of those that I want to support you but I couldn't care less about pears.

I have planted an Asian pear, last year I had so many that I canned and had to give many away to neighbors. This year nothing. Blossoms blew off in a storm. Plant is about 10 years old. Do you think it will produce again? I'm in zone 8. Thanks

Wow- I can see what you mean about the algorithm! Over a million subs and only 3.3k views 😮

this year I planted an apple tree and the squirrels ate them all so my squirrels are very happy I would like to have apples next season what can I do?

Does the Moonglow pear need good cross pollination? I have a Moonglow pear tree that got really big. I chopped it part way down leaving a good bit of trunk for it to grow new branches on. The branches have been growing back, but It's been taking a lot of pruning. I only got nice pears off it one year. I think it's been cross pollinating with a Bradford pear and producing inedible fruit. Any suggestions besides cutting down the Bradford pear. I hate that tree anyway.

What fruit can I plant that doesn’t need another?

Where is the best place to buy fruit trees? Online? Thank you

I have a semi-dwarf Kieffer and I have no idea when to harvest them. There are always tons of fruit but hard as stones. Can anyone give me information on this variety?

Send me some seeds for the MG. Aren't any pear trees around here anymore

I can`t afford to buy a pear tree on Social Security. Only the rich can afford to live in America nowadays.

😒I purchased my first pear tree when I saw a couple of varieties at Tractor Supply. I purchased the Pineapple Pear tree, it was full of blossoms, I also bought a fig tree, a peach tree, two mulberry, 1 red grape fruit to add to my citrus trees. ALL except the pear tree, bloomed beautifully & are forming fruit, lots of healthy leaves. 😒Everytime I see the pear tree I bristle - it dropped all of its blossoms, its leaves are turning "crisp", its growing taller, but just ticked off that it will not bear fruit this year, or maybe never. 😡I really dislike that tree with a passion.