Monty

Monty is a late-season female kiwi with medium fruit and heavy cropping, valued chiefly for extending the harvest at the late end of the season. In a mixed planting alongside earlier varieties like Bruno or Allison and the benchmark Hayward, it spreads the harvest and the marketing window over a longer period, which eases picking labour and lets a grower sell fruit across more weeks. It is grown like the other female varieties and needs a compatible male pollinator flowering with it.

Plant typeGrafted vine (female)
MaturityFemale; late season; first commercial crop ~4–5 years
Yield potentialHigh; medium fruit, late harvest
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
• Arunachal Pradesh

• 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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• 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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• 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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