I also have a few seedlings growing from pears bought at the local market that were imported from Xinjiang. One has fruited and its very tasty but too gritty. I think Tony did not like the fruit on his Lantai, it was too gritty as well. Mine has flowers for the first time this year. These pears need to be kept in storage until March and part of the issue may be we are not storing them for long enough.
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It took 4 years for it to bloom and one fruit last year. I am hoping to get the new Fragrant pear that Jason grafted this year that looked like an apple. Did you graft any Yali last year? They are very crunch, light, juicy, and mildly sweet. You can eat it right off the tree. I got 4 trees and my relatives go after them first. I can eat 4 of them in minutes on a hot day.
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My supposed Lantai Jujuli fruited this year and … it seems to be a Bartlett-like pear! Its an excellent pear so I will keep it but I have no idea how that happened. At some point I moved the graft and I may have gotten it mixed up at that point. @tonyOmahaz5, I assume your Lantai which I think I sent you did not look like Bartlett in shape? It was from the original and not the moved tree. Here is a picture
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I went through my pears I had at the time and could not find a match so I really don’t know what it is. It looks something like Packham’s Triumph but I never had that pear. I also never had Bartlett in my orchard. It was originally grafted together with Louise Bonne de Jersey on the same stock but I have another graft of that and the pears look different. But it could be due to location.
Hello everyone,
I am from Eatonville, WA. and have been lurking this particular thread for a long time while researching for other growers of the Chinese Fragrant Pear. There is very little information about this pear. The information available are very vague. Based on the available data, I assumed the tree is true and not a hybrid so I decided to start my tree from the seeds of the actual store bought fruit. Then I Bud grafted them onto Pyrus betulaefolia root stock. The graft was 6 years ago and I have this tree 8 feet from a Ya li of the same age. the Ya li blossomed but the Frag did not; the result was no Ya li fruit. both the Ya li and the Frag blossomed but no fruits produced from both trees. These two trees blossom very early compared to my Japanese and European pears so I was thinking about the lack of insects and the chilling spring rain. both the Ya li and the Frag blossomed vigorously and produced lots of fruitlets but they all fallen off by late April. Today while working on the garden I looked over at the Fragrant pear tree to analyze this year’s pruning and a fruit. I looked all around and found a total of 4 fruits. These fruits are larger than the Fragrant pear and felt very hard. They look more like a Quince. I will try and take some pics when the rain stops. My conclusion is the Fragrant pear is a hybrid therefore it can not be grown from seeds. It has to be grafted from true scions. Ya li is not a pollinator because the Ya li never produced fruits. I was going to plant a Seuri this fall hoping it would mate well with the Frag since both fruits are similar in shape. Pics coming soon.
Yulu Fragrant pear belongs to the white pear category. It is named Yulu Fragrant due to its origin from a hybrid of Korla Fragrant pear as the female parent and Snowflake pear as the male parent, combined with its white, tender flesh that resembles snowflake.
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