Hayward

Hayward is the world's dominant commercial kiwi variety and the benchmark female type in India. Its large, oval, well-flavoured fruit are the firmest at harvest and keep and ship better than any other common variety, which is why it is the first choice wherever storage and marketing over a long window matter. It is later-maturing and suits the higher, colder sites that provide enough winter chilling. As a female variety it only fruits if a compatible male pollinator (such as Tomuri) is flowering alongside it — one male to every five to eight Hayward vines.

Plant typeGrafted vine (female)
MaturityFemale; later-maturing; first commercial crop ~4–5 years
Yield potentialHigh; large fruit with the best storage life of the common varieties
Disease resistanceNo special resistance; manage PSA canker and crown rot
SoilLoam
SeasonAll seasons

• Spacing4–5 m between vines on a pergola/T-bar trellis; one male per 5–8 females

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

• Himachal Pradesh
• Arunachal Pradesh
• Uttarakhand

• 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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• Abbott

  An early female variety with medium, fragrant fruit, among the earliest to flower and fruit — which can make it more exposed to late spring frost. A good early-season option where the frost risk is managed.

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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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