Korean Giant Pear Pollinator

Anyone know of a good pollination partner for Korean giant? I have 3 asian pears and 2 european pears in my yard plus a grafted cutting and none of them are early enough for Korean giant. I have Bosc, Bartlett, Hosui, Chojuro, Seuri and I'd say Korean giant is probably a week or maybe 2 weeks ahead of the others when flowering.

To follow up on my own post it looks like yoinashi might work according to Dave Wilson nursery. I might try to graft that onto the Korean Giant to see how that ends up working.

Chris Holcombe wrote:To follow up on my own post it looks like yoinashi might work according to Dave Wilson nursery. I might try to graft that onto the Korean Giant to see how that ends up working.

Chris how big were you pears trees when planted and how many years after planting to bear fruit.

Thanks

Ps any other details on planting and care unique to the Asiatic pears ?

Thanks  Again

They were fairly standard size whips. Probably 2ft tall. I don't remember exactly when I planted them. Probably 5yrs or so ago. About 2yrs ago they started bearing fruit with like 1 pear per tree. Last year they made a handful. This year it's looking like a lot based on how many flowers the seuri and chojiro are holding on to. Korean giant looks like a bust again. It's probably 15ft tall at this point, it flowered super early again and most of them fell off. I grafted yoinashi onto it to see if that helps once it takes ( assuming it takes ).

I wonder if it could be in a hotter microclimate that is making it bloom earlier?

I don't have any personal experience with mine yet (just planted it this year), but from what I've read it isn't normally one of the most early bloomers.

Here's a neat flowing and pollination chart I found.

Hope you get some good pollination soon!

Interesting idea about the warm microclimate. I suppose it’s possible. I hadn’t considered that because they’re so close together. You can see in the photo they’re the 3 tallest trees and the Korean giant is in the middle.

Here’s the same picture with descriptions. East is on the right side of the photo and west is on the left side of the photo so you can kind of imagine how the sun traces an arc across the photo.

Maybe it's getting more wind blockage from the homes and hedge behind it, or light refection/heat retention from the hedge.

I planted a Seuri and Chojuro this year, how did you like them?

I like Seuri and Chojuro a lot. They're delicious pears. Crunchy and juicy with butterscotch flavor. I like them a lot better than my european pears of bosc and bartlett. The european ones came with the house. I'm contemplating grafting them over to something more interesting but I don't know what that might be yet. For the moment I have a hosui scion grafted onto the bosc for safe keeping. It seems though this year it wants to make fruit. That'll be amusing to see. If they're good I'll add it to one of my asian trees.

Sounds tasty!