Hendre Huffcap perry pear tree

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• Gardening skill: Beginner
• Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
• Pollination group: 3
• Uses: Hard cider

Hendre Huffcap is a well-known traditional English perry pear variety, and a reliable cropper. It makes a light, low-tannin good quality perry.

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• Semi-standard 1-year bare-root tree $37.95
  Mature height: 10ft-16ft after 10 years
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How to grow

Hendre Huffcap tends to be a large tree (depending on the rootstock). It will readily over-crop, causing broken branches, so thinning is advisable in June.  The fruit falls easily from the tree when ripe.

It is generally untroubled by disease.

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History

Huffcap is an old English term commonly used to describe perry pears which have an elliptical shape - or possibly any strong drink.

Hendre Huffcap characteristics

• Gardening skillBeginner
• Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
• Pollination group3
• Pollinating othersAverage
• Picking seasonLate
• UsesHard cider
• General resistanceGood
• ScabSome resistance
• Summer maximum temperaturesCool ( 20-24C / 68-75F)Warm (25-30C / 76-85F)
• Country of originUnited Kingdom