Plants thrive, grow tall and produce large fruit. Much bigger fruit than any pear type. Some of the fruit get as big as an apple. Very firm full of pulp with little seeds and water. I’m getting better each year at growing them. I prune them early and often. I train them on heavy twine hanging from a trellis frame. Some grow over seven feet.
I make my own fertilizer for calcium, phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen and supplement with quality organic packaged products. I water with rain water mostly from a rain barrel or whatever falls from the sky.