Pear trees
Fruit tree young plants from Lubera Edibles - The new Treelings®
We can offer a few fruit tree species, such as cherries, as ungrafted young plants. But for most fruit trees this is still not possible or leads to a juvenile and infertile phase of the young trees that is too long. However, which young plants are available to producers of container plant products who wish to grow fruit trees in pots? And what should this fruit tree young plant product look like so that it is easy to process and allows a relatively short production period?
Read moreReal-time plant breeding – a breeding tour in April
Plant breeding in April 2022: at Lubera’s field for plant breeding trials in Buchs, Switzerland in early April. You will look in vain for laboratories and white coats. Practical plant breeding takes place first of all in the field, then in the greenhouse; thirdly via researching and evaluating on the computer and only then perhaps in the laboratory. On a Sunday afternoon (when else?), I set off on a tour of our Lubera breeding field in Buchs. What do I notice? What is the latest news? What...
Read moreDwarf genes...what plant dwarfs are made of
We are often asked where the dwarf growth properties of Lowberries®, but also of Maloni® and Pironi®, our compact growing, bushy pear and apple trees, come from. How do breeders get such properties, how do they recognise and develop them?
Read more5 reasons for breeding fruit and berry plants for home gardens
With Lubera® and Lubera® Edibles we are asked again and again, why we would have our own elaborate breeding programmes when there are so many fruit and berry breeding programmes worldwide from which one could use. Our short answer is this: because worldwide there are no fruit and berry breeding programmes that are especially geared towards the home garden. Almost the entire breeding efforts of universities, research stations and increasingly also of private breeders are aimed at...
Read moreOur assortment of 'edible' young plants
As the new company name, Lubera Edibles®, already suggests, we are expanding our range of young plants from classic soft fruits, such as raspberries, blackberries or blueberries, to anything that can be consumed in any way. This includes edible fruits like kiwis, apples and pears. Or edible roots such as horseradish, Jerusalem artichoke or potato. But also edible leaves, petioles, flowers such as sea kale, tea or rhubarb. We would like to introduce our most important groups of crops in the...
Read moreFruit Trees, now new and available!
Fruit trees are now also available in the 'Lubera Edibles' range! From this year these trees will also be available as young plants ... in this video Markus Kobelt explains more about the pear, apple and stone fruit trees which will be being produced for the professional grower.
Markus Kobelt MD of 'Lubera' and Rupert Mayer MD of 'Mayer', together, make up the young plant producers of the brand new 'Lubera Edibles'.
'Lubera Edibles' is the young plant division of Lubera, it provides a large...
Read moreFruit tree young plants – the young plant innovation at Lubera Edibles®
In addition to the young plants from the classic berry fruit, we are able to offer fruit tree young plants for the first time starting in the spring of 2019. At the start, our assortment only contained pome fruit. All varieties offered by us come from the innovative breeding lines of our sister company Lubera®. These varieties have been specially bred and selected for the demands in the home garden. They are characterised by a very good flavour, superior health and partly by an extremely compact...
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