Variety profile
Pear ‚Alexander Lucas’
Pyrus communis · Rosaceae
- Ripening
- mittelspät
- Harvest
- Week 39 to 41
- Vigour
- stark
- Origin
- Frankreich
- Introduced
- 1870
- Storage life
- 3 months
- Self-fertile
- No
- Pollination group
- C
- Heritage variety
- Yes
- Use
- Tafel, Lager, Einmachen
- Pollinator
- Conference, Gute Luise, Vereinsdechant
- Rootstock
- Quitte A, Kirchensaller Mostbirne Sämling
- Disease resistance
- Feuerbrand: gering, Schorf: mittel
About this variety
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‚Alexander Lucas’ is a productive, large-fruited autumn-to-winter pear that you can store well until December. The tree grows vigorously and also copes with rough conditions. It relies on a pollinator such as ‚Conference’ or ‚Gute Luise’, but rewards you with reliably full clusters.
You will find it very juicy, mild flesh with little acidity, a gentle, not spectacular but consistently pleasant table pear. Only after a few weeks of storage does it unfold its full aroma.
Care and diseases
Soil, feeding, pruning, companion planting and diseases apply to every variety of this species alike. You will find the full guidance on the species page.
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