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Growing pear

Pyrus communis · also called nashpati, tang (Kashmiri)Pear is a fruit tree raised from grafted plants. European pears need cold winters and suit the Himalayan hills; low-chill sand pears such as Patharnakh grow in the foothills and the north-west plains.

Cold desert: Ladakh, Lahaul and Spiti

Our team has checked this guide against the sources at the end of the page.These high, dry valleys have very cold winters and a short frost-free season. No guide opened today covers pear in Ladakh or Lahaul and Spiti.Includes AI suggestions where no published guide covers a detail
Two russet pears hanging from a branch of a pear tree
Photo: Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden · CC BY 2.0
Not suited here

Not a crop for this region

These high, dry valleys have very cold winters and a short frost-free season. No guide opened today covers pear in Ladakh or Lahaul and Spiti.

Where it grows nearest

Across India

When to sow it

Twelve growing regions, January to December. Your region comes first.

Not suited here

  • Transplant
  • Harvest
  • Today
  • Not suited here
Cold desertLadakh, Lahaul and SpitiNot suited hereTemperate HimalayaKashmir valley, Shimla, KulluSub-tropical foothillsJammu, Kangra, Dehradun
Compare all 12 regions
Temperate HimalayaKashmir valley, Shimla, KulluSub-tropical foothillsJammu, Kangra, DehradunNorth-west plainsPunjab, Haryana, DelhiGangetic plainseastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal plainsNot suited hereNorth-east hills and valleysAssam, Meghalaya, SikkimArid westRajasthan, Kutch, north GujaratNot suited hereCentral plateauMadhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, VidarbhaNot suited hereDeccan plateauinterior Maharashtra, Telangana, north KarnatakaNot suited hereSouth interiorBengaluru, Mysuru, interior Tamil NaduNot suited hereWest coastKerala, Goa, KonkanNot suited hereEast coastcoastal Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, coastal AndhraNot suited here
Today
See the dates as a table
RegionSowNurseryTransplantHarvest
Cold desertNot suited here
Temperate HimalayaWinter, up to mid-FebruaryLast week of June to third week of JulyThird week of July to third week of AugustLast week of August to second week of September
Sub-tropical foothillsWinter, up to mid-FebruaryLast week of JulyAugust
North-west plainsWinter, finishing by the end of JanuaryEnd of June to first week of JulyThird week of JulyFourth week of JulyLast week of JulyFirst week of August
Gangetic plainsNot suited here
North-east hills and valleysDecember to mid-FebruaryJuly to August
Arid westNot suited here
Central plateauNot suited here
Deccan plateauNot suited here
South interiorNot suited here
West coastNot suited here
East coastNot suited here

What it needs

Soil, sun and warmth

  • Soil pH1,2

    Deep, fertile, well-drained soil that stays moist, from sandy loam to clay loam, with no hard layer in the top 2 m. Pear grows on a wide range of soils if they hold enough moisture; it stands drought less well than apple but copes better with slow drainage.

  • SunlightNo published guide covers this for the Cold desert, so this is an AI suggestion. Check it with local advice before you rely on it.

    Full sun, in an open site with good air movement.

  • TemperatureNo published guide covers this for the Cold desert, so this is an AI suggestion. Check it with local advice before you rely on it.

    Takes hard frost.

    Monthly temperatures for the Cold desert aren't in the library yet.

Good neighboursNo published guide covers this for the Cold desert, so this is an AI suggestion. Check it with local advice before you rely on it.

Keep it away from

Seed and the season's end

Saving seed1Part of this comes from the sources cited. The rest is an AI suggestion.

Pear does not come true from seed, so seed is saved only to raise rootstock seedlings. Take it from fully ripe fruit of healthy, vigorous, high-yielding trees.

Cleaning the seed

Wash the seed clean in water and dry it in the shade.

Keep dry seed in airtight containers in a cool, dry place; pear seed keeps for about 3 years. Before sowing it needs 30 to 50 days of moist chilling at 1 to 5°C, and comes up about 45 days after sowing.

After the last pickingNo published guide covers this for the Cold desert, so this is an AI suggestion. Check it with local advice before you rely on it.

Rake up fallen leaves and fruit after leaf fall and compost them in a pit away from the trees. Chip or compost prunings; burn diseased wood rather than leaving it in the orchard.

Rotation

When an old orchard is removed, grow a few seasons of legumes, fodder or vegetables before planting fruit trees again, and do not set new trees back into the old pits.

Sources

Where this comes from

Our team has checked this guide against the sources at the end of the page.Reviewed by our team on 13 November 2026.

These published guides are the sources. Where none of them covers a detail for this region, the page shows an AI suggestion and labels it.

  1. 1Package of practices for fruit crops 2020 (pear chapter and nursery chapter)Directorate of Extension, SKUAST-JammuRead the source

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