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What Is Cider Carol Miles, Jacky King, and Ed Scheenstra WSU Mount Vernon NWREC 16650 State Route 536, Mount Vernon, WA 98273 http://maritimefruit.wsu.edu Tree growth habit and tree characteristics of cider apple varieties observed at WSU Mount Vernon NWREC, 2002-2015. GROWTH HABIT & CHARACTERISTICS Bearing Blind Growth Grower Alternate Full Bloom Date4 Cultivar Prod.3 Habit wood1 Habit Friendly2 Bearing Comments Semi Spur Spreading Amere de Berthcourt 1.5 Y Semi 2.45 9 May Semi Spur Semi American Forestier 1 Y Y 2.75 23 May Spreading Semi Spur Semi Blanc Mollet 1.5 Y Y 2.88 18 May Upright Standard Semi Bouteville 1.5 Semi Semi 3.50 12 May Spreading Standard Spreading 9 May Bramley’s Seedling 2.5 Y Semi 2.58 Very large fruit Semi Spur Spreading Breakwell Seedling 1 Y Semi 3.20 23 May Brown’s Apple Semi Spur Semi 2 Y Y 2.63 13 May Spreading Spur Semi 23 May Brown Snout 1 Y Semi 4.00 Spreading Small fruit, consistent Standard Semi Brown Thorn 2 Semi Y 2.38 25 May Spreading Semi Spur Spreading Bulmer’s Norman 1 Y Semi 2.58 10 May Semi Spur Upright Campfield 2 Semi Semi 1.78 9 May Spur Semi Cap of Liberty 1 Y Y 3.08 9 May Upright Semi Spur Spreading Cimetiere 1 Y Y 2.88 30 May Semi Spur Semi 22 May Court Pendu Plat 1.5 Semi Y - Upright Weak growth Semi Spur Spreading 23 May Court Pendu Rose 1.5 Y Y 2.63 Weak growth Semi Spur Spreading Crow Egg 2 Y Y - 14 May Semi Spur Spreading 19 May Dabinett 1.5 Y Semi 3.45 Consistent nice fruit Finkenwerder Tip Bearer Semi 10 May 2.5 Semi Semi 2.73 Herbstprinz Spreading German culinary use Semi Spur Spreading Frequin Rouge 1.5 Y Semi 2.73 10 May Tip Bearer Spreading 2 May Golden Russet 2.5 N N 3.65 Standard Semi Granniwinkle 2 Y N 3.10 2 May Upright Tip Bearer Spreading Grindstone 4 N Y 3.13 4 May Miles et al. (2016), Washington State University GROWTH HABIT & CHARACTERISTICS Bearing Blind Growth Grower Alternate Full Bloom Date4 Cultivar Prod.3 Habit wood1 Habit Friendly2 Bearing Comments Tip Bearer Upright Harrison 2 Y Semi 1.95 10 May Harry Masters’ Semi Spur Spreading 1 Y Semi 3.13 18 May Jersey Hewes’ Virginia Standard Upright 2 May 1 Y N - Crab V. small edible fruit Semi Spur Semi Jouveaux 1.5 Y Y 3.00 3 May Upright Semi Spur Spreading Kermerrien 1 Y Y 2.68 16 May Standard Spreading Kingston Black 2 Y Y 2.58 16 May Standard Semi 15 May Lambrook Pippin 3.5 N N 2.63 Spreading Vigor high Standard Semi Major 1.5 Y Y 3.13 18 May Upright Semi Spur Semi Medaille D’Or 1 N Y 2.53 1 June Upright Standard Semi Mettais 2.5 Semi Semi 2.38 13 May Upright Semi Spur Semi Michelin 2 Y Y 3.13 14 May Upright Tip Bearer Spreading 12 May Muscadet de Dieppe 2.5 N Semi 3.00 Good quality Semi Spur Semi Muscat de Bernay 2 Y N 2.40 13 May Upright Semi Spur Spreading Peau de Vache 1 Y Semi 3.75 16 May Standard Spreading Red Jersey 1.5 Semi Y - - Redstreak, Tip Bearer Spreading 2.5 Y Semi 3.25 10 May Herefordshire Standard Upright Reine des Pommes 3 Semi Semi 2.30 7 May Tip Bearer Semi 2 May Roxbury Russet 3.5 N N 3.00 Upright Consistent mod. yield Semi Spur Semi Royal Jersey 1 Y Y 2.50 23 May Upright Semi Spur Semi Smith’s Cider 2 Y Semi 2.75 6 May Upright Semi Spur Spreading Sweet Alford 1 Y Semi 3.63 9 May Standard Spreading 21 May Sweet Coppin 2 Semi Y 2.50 Vigorous Tip Bearer Spreading 13 May Taliaferro (Colaw) 4 N Semi 2.38 Much blind wood Semi Spur Spreading Taylor’s 2.5 Y Semi 3.25 12 May Semi Spur Spreading 7 May Tom Putt 2 Y N 4.33 Reliable but drops Semi Spur Spreading 6 May Track Zero 1 Y Semi 3.50 Flowers heavily on 1 year wood Miles et al. (2016), Washington State University GROWTH HABIT & CHARACTERISTICS Bearing Blind Growth Grower Alternate Full Bloom Date4 Cultivar Prod.3 Habit wood1 Habit Friendly2 Bearing Comments Standard Semi 10 May Tramlett’s, Geneva 2 Spreading Y Semi 2.55 Not the true (English) ‘Tramlett’s Bitter’ Semi Spur Spreading Vilberie 2 Y Semi 2.48 24 May Semi Spur Spreading 12 May Whidbey 2.5 Y Semi 3.63 Large fruit Standard Spreading Yarlington Mill 2 Y N 3.83 16 May Semi Spur Semi 7 May Zabergau Reinette 2 Y Y 3.50 Spreading Large fruit 1 Blind wood: 1 – None to few areas (less than 4 inches); 2 – Few bare areas (most between 4-6 inches with no bud break); 3 – Several bare areas between 4-6 inches with no bud break; 4 – Several bare areas less than 1foot but most longer than 8 inches with no bed break; 5 – Several areas on numerous branches with 1foot or longer having no bud break. 2 Grower Friendly: A tree that is productive and requires less in-field manipulation of the canopy (less labor)- i.e. tree spreading to semi-spreading equals less training involved; tip bearers require more management for canopy manipulation; willowy trees may require tying and more pruning labor; spur types are more grower friendly and require less pruning, usually have stiffer wood and hold their crop load better, but they can also have a tendency to alternate bearing. 3 Productivity Rating: 5 - high production, all areas of tree bearing fruit; 4 - moderate production, most areas of tree bearing fruit; 3 - acceptable production, may be uneven, clusters of fruit vs. sparse areas; 2 - low production, unacceptable commercial; 1 - very few fruit, samples only; 0 - no fruit (field observations; blank space indicates insufficient observations to determine). 4 Mean full bloom date as recorded at WSU Mount Vernon NWREC. Miles et al. (2016), Washington State University .
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