Make sure to keep us posted. I've had mine 5 years. I was planning to replace it with Fondante des Moulins-Lille, but if it's worth it I'll try to squeeze them both in somehow. Do you have any data on storage qualities of Shipova?

Glad to hear it! I have one tree that's three years old and another that's four but was girdled by a weedwhacker and is now a bush not a tree. I can't wait to taste my first fruits! I'm contemplating espaliering the tree that was girdled since that might encourage it to fruit at a younger age.

I can't see them storing at all, maybe 2-3 weeks if picked green like a pear -- well, ok, they basically are a pear, but a summer pear, not a winter, storage pear like Bosc or Winter Nellis or Olympic Giant. I let my few fruits - I had about 6 or 8 but the critters got all but 2 or 3, ripen fully on the tree until soft and golden in color. I would say they would store about like a Bartlett, which in my experience isn't very long.

That's really cool. What is it grafted onto?

Mine is grafted onto mountain ash. I got it from One Green World.

Congrats! There is nothing quite like finally getting that reward after waiting so many years for good fruit. You have a lot of patience to grow that one.

I wonder how it'd do on a OHF series stock. There's a reason it's on Mt. Ash, compatibility?