@BarMas 1/ We have access to the tree in Oregon, but it isn't grown commercially hereabouts, and evades appeal at the homestead level largely because the cultural knowhow relating to its reliable harvest, storage and ripening eludes us. Forelle's a problematic one for us. Any pointers?
@brightabyss 2/ We've also spent a decade researching barely-known varieties of winter-pears at one of the world's largest and most diverse pear collections. Today, we gathered fruit from more than a hundred key candidates to track over forthcoming months. We know of no one else at such work.
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Chris Homanics and Nick Routledge with the Agrarian Sharing Network sitting on the tailgate of a truck at the USDA pear germplasm repository in Corvallis, OR, among bags of the more than 100 unique winter pear accessions collected from more than 1,000 named but little-researched pear varieties there.