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PostPosted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:20 pm 
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Why won't my pears ripen? They are large and beautiful, but still not ripe


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Hi MC,
Unfortunately you don't say where you live, your hardiness zone or the type of pears you are growing. Here's some info on pears and maybe that will explain it.

http://members.efn.org/~bsharvy/edible7.html#PearAsian
"Unlike European pears, good flavor comes from ripening on the tree."
"They also tend to overbear (when pollinized), so annual thinning is required for full sized fruit."

http://members.efn.org/~bsharvy/edible7 ... arEuropean
"Tree-ripened European pears are inferior: the fruit is picked when full-sized and ripened on the shelf."

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