Rescue European Pear

We planted our rescue pear from Raintree a few years ago, when it set a handful of fruit this year, I thinned it down to one, and let that one produce. So thankful that I did! We harvested in early September here in the PNW, let it sit on the counter for a few weeks, and then just tried it at a family bedtime treat. It was most similar to a really nice comice pear, buttery, firm texture, sweet and juicy. Had it protected in a nylon footie as it is near our apples that benefit from the same, and removed that the end of August to get a little more color. Just trimmed off the leaves that were affected by pear trellis rust, also present on our orcas pear, about 1/4 of leaves impacted on this young tree. Looking forward to future growth and enjoyment!

I'm writing the review almost three years after receiving the tree because I wanted to review the fruit as well. I planted the tree in Fall of 2022. The first year (23) no fruit set, the second year (24) a few set but all dropped in the the June drop. This year (25) I harvested about 8 pears, after thinning it heavily in June - there was no "natural" drop in June. I harvested them about a week ago and let them sit on the counter to ripen. They are juicy and the flavor is a little bit spicy - not super sweet like a Bartlett. I would highly recommend this pear. I live in Southern Oregon and the tree did fine in our hot, dry summer with 2x/week watering.

Healthy tree well packaged

Best pear for Missouri. Great tasty fruit. With great color.

I ve had a Rescue for about 5 years now and it seems to be reliably building production each year, last year was my first large crop. Ripens at least a couple weeks later than Bartlett in my location (lowland valley east of Tacoma). My old Bartlett gets scab so bad that many years I get no edible fruit as it is to mangled and cracked and rotten even before being near ripe; but the Rescue is hardly effected. Though last year the skins on Rescue were almost leathery thick and they had a lot of grit cells, fortunately both could be fixed by peeling. I can t say if the grit cells were caused by the cultivar, harvest timing, fertilizer, or weather, i hadn t noticed the grit in other years but then I also didn t have as many fruits to sample. I also can t say they stored any longer than any other typical summer pear, but I just tossed them in the spare fridge might have been too cold or humidity wrong.