Topic: Apple friends.

[Smellslikegreenspirit]

I need a suitable polloinator Apple tree to go with my "Discovery". I would like it to be a crisp apple. Any ideas??   

[valmarg]

Off the cuff, no.

Basically what you need is an apple that flowers at the same time as your Discovery, that produces the required crisp apples.

I would suggest that you go on the Ken Muir (or other fruit supplier sites), to see what is available.

I'm a bit out of date regarding what new varieties are available at the moment.

valmarg

[redimp]

http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/fruit_veg_diary/fruit_veg_mini_project_september_2b2_apple.asp
I would go for a Cox

[saddad]

I grow mine with a fiesta, an egremont russet and a blenheim orange... and get a good crop of each. I think the fiesta is the cross pollinator for the discovery. A crisp redish apple that is slightly later to follow on from it!
 ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

Cox's is a bit temperamental; Fiesta is more reliable, is in the same pollination group as discovery, and crops later so you'd have a longer season. But do check further as there are so manyapples which would do it.

[realfood]

It really depends where the enquirer is living. Neither cox or fiesta are suitable for the North West, as I can testify as they will be ruined by Canker.
Discovery is in pollination group B, and there are quite a few good apples in pollination group B.