When do red pears ripen? A detailed explanation of red pear ripening time

The red pear is an early-ripening, crisp-fleshed red new variety bred in Shaanxi Province from the fruit tree Zaobali and Zaosuli, and it is also a relatively fine pear variety in China today. So, when do red pears ripen?

1. When do red pears ripen?

Red pears generally ripen from late July to late August. The skin of this variety is yellow, turning red on the sun-facing side; the flesh is fine and juicy with a sweet, fragrant taste, and the soluble solids content can reach 11.9%-15.3%.

2. High-yield cultivation techniques for red pears

1. Key points for establishing the orchard

The planting density is a row spacing of 2×3 or 3×4 m; although Zaosu red pear can self-pollinate, pollinator trees can also be arranged at 6:1, with pollinator varieties such as Suli, Xuehuali and other varieties with a similar flowering period.

Zaosu red pear has wide adaptability and can be cultivated in all provinces nationwide except cold regions, but on mountainous thin land and coarse sandy land the fruit often shows deficiency symptoms, so the soil should be improved during cultivation and soil fertility built up to make the trees strong and high-yielding. It can reach full production in 4 years

2. Pear orchard management

Management under the trees mainly consists of covering the tree pan with grass during the growing season, loosening the soil, and hoeing weeds; combined with applying organic fertilizer and deep loosening of the soil in late autumn, to favor the growth and development of the root system; apply nitrogen fertilizer plus compound fertilizer once before germination and after petal fall, and apply compound fertilizer plus trace elements in early June. Management above the trees should be combined with pest and disease control; throughout the growing season, spray the leaves every 15-20 days with 0.3% urea + 0.2% potassium dihydrogen phosphate to supplement the tree's nutrients and strengthen tree vigor. The principle of irrigation is to promote early and control later, carried out in conjunction with each fertilization, and pay attention to watering the freezing water; in years with heavy rainfall, pay attention to drainage. Pay attention to the use of boron fertilizer.

3. Timely thinning of flowers and fruits

Zaosu red pear flowers easily and has a high fruit-setting rate, so flowers and fruits should be thinned in time; combined with winter pruning, remove some excess flower buds, begin flower thinning after the flower buds separate, leaving 2 side flowers per cluster. After fruit set, set the fruit: for young and vigorous trees, leave 1 fruit per 25-30 leaves, and keep only 1 single fruit per flower cluster.

4. Bagging

To increase the rate of high-quality fruit, reduce pest and disease damage, and prevent direct pesticide contamination. The tree shape can adopt a double-layer open-center form or a spindle form. For the double-layer open-center form, the trunk branching point is 60-70 cm high, the first layer keeps 3-5 main branches, the second layer keeps 2-3 main branches, the layer spacing is 70 cm, no side branches are kept, and fruiting branch groups are borne directly on the main branches, with large, medium and small branch groups arranged in a staggered manner, and the tree height is about 2.5 m; for the spindle form, the trunk branching point is 60 cm high, one main branch is kept every 20 cm, and the main branches rise in a spiral, forming a tree body wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, spindle-shaped, with a tree height of 2.5 m. When pruning, pay attention to opening the angle of the branches; for slanting long branches, leave them unpruned; for upright long branches, make a ring cut about every 20 cm from the base upward, continuing the ring cuts to the tip, and the next year 3-7 medium and short branches and many leaf cluster branches will sprout. Zaosu red pear has slightly poor renewal and rejuvenation ability, so pay attention to keeping the load light to maintain strong trees and leave more cut branches.

As soon as red pears hit the market they are snapped up, and they are currently a high-yield economic crop, so interested farming friends can try planting them.