Spring 2024
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Humbug
An unusual pear with green and yellow striped fruit named after the traditional striped English sweet.
Origin: Ukraine,
Pollination: Humbug is self-sterile and would require a pollinator to produce a crop. Pollination partners
We are now closed for the season. Ordering for winter 2024/25 will be enabled from Wednesday 1st May 2024.
Characteristics of Humbug pear trees
| Use | Dessert |
| Colour | |
| Flavour | |
| Fruit size | Small |
| Picking time | Oct |
| Season of use | Oct-DEc |
| Tree vigour | Moderate |
| Tree habit | Upright-spreading |
| Fruit-bearing | Spur-bearer |
| Cropping | Good |
| Pollination date | 20 |
| Pollination group | D |
| Self-fertility | Self-sterile |
| Pollinators | Pollination partners |
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