Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Melinda Red remains an experimental pear rather than a fully characterised cultivar. Its pink to red flesh is its genuine attraction, while early descriptions present it as juicy, mild and pleasantly sweet. There is still insufficient experience to assess exact ripening time, productivity, consistency and disease resistance. We would clearly offer it as an unusual collector’s cultivar still undergoing evaluation.

Melinda Red

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

A red-fleshed pear variety producing juicy fruit with a mild sweet flavour and attractive pink flesh.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Pear rootstock options

Farold 87 - approx 4.5m mature height

Kirchensaller – approx. 6 m mature height

Pyrodwarf – approx. 4 m mature height

Quince BA29 – approx. 3 m mature height

Quince BA29 with Comice interstem – approx. 3 m mature height

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SKU: 15279 Categories: Dessert pear trees, Pear trees

Description

Melinda Red Pear Tree is an unusual pear variety producing fruit with attractive pink to red-tinted flesh. The pears are described as juicy, mild and pleasantly sweet, making them interesting for fresh eating.

This variety is still being evaluated in our nursery orchard, but it appears particularly promising for growers looking for distinctive pear varieties with original flesh colour and good eating quality.

Melinda Red is an interesting choice for collectors, fruit enthusiasts and gardeners wishing to discover a less common pear variety with ornamental and gustative appeal.

Our Melinda Red pear trees were initially produced for our own trials, and a limited surplus is available depending on current nursery stock.