Variety profile
Pear ‚Conference’
Pyrus communis · Rosaceae
- Ripening
- mittelspät
- Harvest
- Week 38 to 40
- Vigour
- mittel
- Origin
- England
- Introduced
- 1894
- Storage life
- 3 months
- Self-fertile
- No
- Pollination group
- B
- Heritage variety
- Yes
- Use
- Tafel, Lager, Einmachen
- Pollinator
- Williams Christ, Gute Luise, Gellerts Butterbirne
- Rootstock
- Quitte A, Quitte C
- Disease resistance
- Feuerbrand: mittel, Schorf: mittel
About this variety
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Conference is the most cultivated pear in Europe and one of the most reliable for your home garden. It ripens in September and can be stored well into winter. Plant a second variety such as ‚Williams Christ’ or ‚Gute Luise’ nearby, because it is not self-fertile, and its long, bottle-shaped fruit only yields abundantly with good pollination.
Fine, melting flesh, juicy and mildly sweet with a subtle spice. Fresh from the tree still a bit firm, after one to two weeks of storage it becomes buttery soft.
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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