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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Smellslikegreenspirit on October 02, 2008, 21:26:28

Title: Apple friends.
Post by: Smellslikegreenspirit on October 02, 2008, 21:26:28

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

Title: Re: Apple friends.
Post by: valmarg on October 02, 2008, 22:36:36

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I'm a bit out of date regarding what new varieties are available at the moment.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

Title: Re: Apple friends.
Post by: redimp on October 02, 2008, 22:48:44

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

Title: Re: Apple friends.
Post by: saddad on October 02, 2008, 22:50:56

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

Title: Re: Apple friends.
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on October 03, 2008, 12:28:18

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.

Title: Re: Apple friends.
Post by: realfood on October 03, 2008, 20:05:33

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.