Pear (Pyrus communis) KITAISKY LIKHTARIK

Winter pear with attractive red fruits and resistance to fungal diseases and frost. Distinguished by high marketable quality, productivity and good fruits storability. Unpretentious to growing conditions. The fruits are suitable for long-term storage without loss of taste and quality of the fruits.

Crossing: Kyrgizskaya Zimnaya x Krymskaya Medovaya, Kyiv Horticultural Institute, Ukraine 2005, breeder N.V. Matviyenko
Vigour: weak to medium, spherical pyramid-shaped, spreading, medium dense canopy
Blossom: the flowers and young fruits are relatively resistant to late spring frosts. Cross-pollinate variety, for pollination needs another pear blooming at the same time.
Fruits: elliptical, large, 180 - 230 g, balanced in size. The skin is very firm, smooth, shiny, green with a red cheek on the sunny side when ripe for harvesting, straw yellow with a red tint on most of the fruit surface when ripe for consumption.
Pulp: creamy white, juicy, crunchy, sweet-sour with a delicate aroma
Taste: delicious, refreshing
Harvest season: harvest maturity at the end of September, consumption maturity November to December, refrigerated storage is possible until March
Yield: early yield onset, already in the 3rd - 4th year after planting. The 7-year-old tree achieves a yield of 47-56 t/ha.
Frost resistance: very good
Disease resistance: low sensitivity to fire blight (Erwinia amylovora), scab (Venturia pyrina) and pear rust (Gymnosporangium sabinae). Suitable for organic or no-spray culture.