We are in vastly different climates, but here Shinko will pollinate Korean Giant.

Of the 3 I've tried, Shinko, Housi and Korean Giant, the KG was by far my favorite. It's very mild in flavor, so you might be able to have more luck finding friends to take home your excess produce.

First I'd bet you don't need another variety to pollinate Shinseiki. You'll find out next year. All the Asians I've been around set way too much fruit. I really don't believe they'd set too little without pollination. But I could be wrong.

My Olympic has set plenty also but not like the other Asians. Olympic is my favorite Asian as well.

After 3 different varieties of Asian pear died from fire blight, Olympic is the only surviving Asian pear tree in my yard. It beared about 30 pears this year. That is a lot of pears for such as young tree. As far as I know, there is no other Asian pear tree within 500' riadius around us. But my neighbour two doors down has an Europian pear.

When flowering periods overlap Euros will often (usually?, always?) pollinate A. Pears. I use Seckel here because it's an early Euro. I believe most any Asian will work for another.

Pear pollination is a bit mysterious. In warm springs most Euro varieties can bear parthenocarpically (dam, is that the word?) which means without seeds. I suspect Asians could do the same.

I'm pretty sure Bradford pears would do the trick also if any are nearby.

I have two Shinseiki trees and they turn out great every season. The Shinseiki gets ripe in mid August the Hosui in Late August and the Olympic in early September(now). The Hosui is suppose to be the best but I like Shinseiki I eat about four every day. The asians can bloom for a month and they bloom alot. Here the Euro pears all overlap Asian pears in their blooms.

How many chill hours for an average winter there?

How many chill hours do I get? I don't know. Last feeze was June 15 and we lost squash and cantaloupe plants to a freeze 3 days ago (Sept 4th).

I don't think I have any issue with meeting chill hour requirements for anything.

I asked about your area chill hours because I wondered if a 550-650 chill hour pear would fit in well there. There is a newer variety of Asian pear that is working well in the Houston area, and I would ship some of it's budwood to you this winter if you were interested. The history of this discovery tree is summarized in an article found on John Panzarella's Citrus Page. This Tennosui (original spelling) came from a Tennessee pear seed but has Hosui charcteristics due to cross pollination. I visited the discovery tree and, with permission, ate fruit from it. The medium-sized, apple-shaped pear has bronze peel that will develop a reddish tint when the fruit is fully ripe. The thick skin does not get black mold like so many of the green-skinned European pears get in our humid/rainy climate. The sweet, crispy (not hard), white flesh won't challenge dentures. There was very little leaf spot and only a trace of older fireblight on the tree .It has a 12" thick trunk and is about 15 feet tall. The tree is self-fertile and thus needs no pollen from other pear trees. These last 2 years I have been converting the tops of my less-impressive pear trees over to mostly Tennosui, as well as some low chill Southern Queen, Meadows, Hood, and Acres Home. Let me know if you want budwood this winter.

Tennosui sounds really good.

I've got to learn how to graft, so I can take advantage of your generous offer.

Home Orchard Society is offering classes on how to graft in the spring. I'm going to go and try to learn.

Orient works well as a European pollinator and is fire blight resistant. also Shinko will work. Korean Giant is Olympic so you might find more for that name. My KG pollinate each other just fine last year had 600lbs on three tree.