The reason you need two different varieties of pear is because (with only a few rare exceptions) pear trees are unable to pollinate themselves, and that includes another pear tree with identical genetic code. There are even a few cases where 2 different pear varieties are so closely related that they cannot pollinate each other.

However, as long as it is a different variety, in general any pear can pollinate any other pear. This includes Asian pears and even ornamental pears.

No pollination, no fruit.

Got it. Thank you!

It's semantics, but this is the fruit and orchard forum... No pear is able to pollenate another... they can POLLENIZE one another... but it takes an insect (or human with brush, etc. ) to POLLINATE. Insects, like bees, are pollinators. Plants are pollenizers.

Thank you! I like crunchy pears. Is Kieffer crunchy?

Kieffer is known as a very disease resistant vigorous growing tree with pears that are somewhat gritty. A lot of people don't care for keiffer due to the grittiness but there are a lot of people that love kieffer because it's so easy to grow