Luscious Pear

Luscious is everything I ever wanted in a pear. The trees are hardy and fireblight resistant and the pears are exceptionally delicious – sweet, juicy, medium-sized with smooth, melting flesh. Growth pattern is less unruly than many pears.

Luscious is a poor pollinator. We recommend planting it with two other pears in the communis pollination group for best fruit-set.

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Pears are a great fruit for Central Vermont. Pears suffer from fewer pests and diseases than apple trees, making it easier to grow high quality fruit. Plant 20-30 ft apart.

Pear Pollination: The two different strains of pear, communis (European) and ussuriensis (Siberian), flower at slightly different times and will not reliably pollinate each other. Plant communis types with communis types, and ussuriensis types for most reliable fruit set. Also, some pear varieties produce very little pollen, making them poor pollinators for other pears. Plant at least two different varieties from the same pollination group (either communis or ussuriensis) for pollination. If planting a poor pollinator, plant at least two other varieties from the same group. The more the merrier!

Ussuriensis types will often grow to be larger trees (25 or more ft tall). Communis types have been grafted on a semidwarf rootstock and may be kept under 20 ft with pruning.