Abbott

Abbott is a very early female kiwi with medium, fragrant fruit, among the first varieties to flower and fruit each season. That early flowering is both its advantage (early fruit for the market) and its main risk, since it is more exposed to late spring frost on the tender new growth and blossom — so it suits sites where late-frost risk is low or can be managed. It is grown like the other female varieties and needs a compatible male pollinator timed to its early flowering for good fruit set.

Plant typeGrafted vine (female)
MaturityFemale; very early season; first commercial crop ~4–5 years
Yield potentialGood; medium, fragrant fruit
Disease resistanceNo special resistance widely documented
SoilLoam
SeasonAll seasons

• Spacing4–5 m between vines; one male per 5–8 females

Actual yield depends on sowing time, soil, irrigation, weather, seed quality and crop management.

• Himachal Pradesh
• Uttarakhand

• Hayward

  The world's leading commercial kiwi and the benchmark female variety in India — large, oval, well-flavoured fruit with the firmest flesh at harvest and the best keeping quality. Later-maturing; needs a compatible male pollinator (such as Tomuri).

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• Allison

  An early-to-mid-season female variety valued for heavy, reliable cropping and good fruit size, often the top yielder in Indian hill trials. Suits slightly lower, warmer kiwi sites than Hayward.

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• Bruno

  An early female variety with long, cylindrical, densely hairy fruit and heavy cropping, widely grown in the Indian hills. Its distinctive long fruit shape and reliable yield make it a popular commercial choice.

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• Monty

  A late-season female variety with medium fruit and heavy cropping, extending the harvest window at the late end of the season — useful in a mixed planting to spread harvest and marketing over a longer period.

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• Tomuri (male pollinator)

  A male pollinator variety that does not itself fruit but supplies pollen, timed to flower with the late female varieties such as Hayward. One male is planted for every 5–8 female vines — without it, the females set almost no fruit.

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