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Dauntless
Joined: 20 Nov 2010 Posts: 174 Location: Mesa, AZ
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:05 am Post subject: Keiffer Pears |
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Does anyone grow these? They are supposed to do ok here. I am also curious about the taste. Some reviews that I have read have said that they are gritty which doesn't sound very appealing. |
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phoenixtropicals Site Admin
Joined: 06 May 2008 Posts: 1207 Location: Mesa Arizona
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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I am growing Florida Home and Hood. The Florida Home has fruited and they were good pears. I vaguely recall someone telling me that they grew Keiffers and they were big but not good. |
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Amadioranch
Joined: 07 Jan 2012 Posts: 88
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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We have a large mature Kieffer pear in our orchard. Fabulously productive tree but they are kinda meant to be a canning pear. If ripened inside they can be quite good fresh eatting but the texture is not as fine as say a bartlett. My wife makes some mighty fine pies out of the pears. We just put in a Hood and a 20th century asian pear but both are small yet.
Overall I think Kieffers get a bad wrap. I wouldnt want to be without ours. |
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Dauntless
Joined: 20 Nov 2010 Posts: 174 Location: Mesa, AZ
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:49 am Post subject: pears |
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Thanks to both of you! I really want a fresh eating type of pear. I do have a 4 in 1 Asian pear tree so I am looking for more of the standard type pear.
I love the sound of the Keiffer in that it is self fruitful and seems to be very productive but since I only have so much room for trees, I found a 3 in 1 mild climate pear tree that I may try. It has Florda Home, Hood, Comice or Monterrey so I may try one of those since you need two for pollination. I'm not wild about multibudded trees but I haven't tried the two or three trees in one hole route yet. I always wonder what would happen if one died.
Do you guys have any experience with these multi-budded trees? My Asian Pear tree is only almost 1 year old so I don't have much to report on it yet. I did get a couple of 20th Century pears though but the birds got those. |
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