ALVAREZ1

  • Race: Guatemalan.
  • Tree: it is very vigorous, with horizontal branches and very compact. Production at 3 years.
  • Flowering: it belongs to group A. It is earlier and longer than Hass (from mid-March to the end of April).
  • Planting Layout: 6 x 6 m. interim to stay for 15/17 years and definitely 8,60 x 8,60 m.
  • Fruit: it is pear and large -shaped with wrinkled green skin. It turns purple when it ripens.
  • Flesh: it is creamy, green-yellow colour and with an excellent flavour.
  • Seed size: it is medium, with a pulp/seed percentage quite similar than Hass.
  • Fruit weight: from 300 to 400 gr.
  • Size of the fruit: the 70% is from 10-12-14 and 16 and the 20% is 18.
  • Fruit ripening: it is from mid-December to the end of June.