Variety profile
Pear ‚Gräfin von Paris’
Pyrus communis · Rosaceae
- Ripening
- spät
- Harvest
- Week 42 to 44
- Vigour
- mittel
- Origin
- Frankreich
- Introduced
- 1880
- Storage life
- 5 months
- Self-fertile
- No
- Pollination group
- C
- Heritage variety
- Yes
- Use
- Tafel, Lager
- Pollinator
- Conference, Vereinsdechant, Alexander Lucas
- Rootstock
- Quitte A, Quitte C
- Disease resistance
- Feuerbrand: gering, Schorf: mittel
About this variety
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The ‚Gräfin von Paris’ is a true winter pear, you harvest it still hard in late October and let it ripen in storage until February or March. It needs a warm, sheltered place to ripen, and a pollinator such as ‚Conference’ or ‚Vereinsdechant’. That way you have fresh pears all winter.
After storage ripening it is juicy and melting with a pleasant sweet-acid balance and fine spice. Directly from the tree it is still inedible hard; patience until ripening pays off.
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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