@Christmas_Snow I'll have to look into that. They taste fine.
@Christmas_Snow been reading some more on it. I do need to get a soil test done in general. High water content and clayey soils tend to have low boron. So maybe that is a fix. They still work for cooking and for making cheong syrup and taste fine to me. I have 2 trees, one only gave me 2 pears and a bird got one of them. The other is my heavy producer. I keep working on the wife to let me turn a part of the yard into a micro orchard.
@Kurtroedeger My grandma used to have a small orchard (apples and pear trees) on her farm. She had to have had at least 6 or 7 trees in there... sometimes my cousins and i would feed the dropped apples to the cows as a treat. 🙂
@Kurtroedeger Your pears made me want to search and see what is happening with them. Your tree could either have a boron deficiency (fixable, after getting soil tested), or stony pit virus (sadly there's no treatment to fix it😕)
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