Origin: USA, 1870
Pollination: Red Delicious is self-sterile and would require a pollinator to produce a crop. Pollination partners
British-grown All our bare-root trees are personally hand-grafted by our Nursery Manager and grown on at our nursery in Kent. We have Defra and Plant Healthy certification. Find out more ...
Use | Dessert |
Colour | Red |
Flavour | Sweet |
Fruit size | Medium |
Picking time | Mid Oct |
Season of use | Dec-Mar |
Tree vigour | Moderate |
Tree habit | Upright-spreading |
Fruit-bearing | Spur-bearer |
Cropping | Heavy |
Pollination date | 12 |
Pollination group | D |
Self-fertility | Self-sterile |
Pollinators | Pollination partners |
Progeny | Captain Kidd Empire Fuji Gloster 69 Kidd's Orange Red Melrose |
Sports | Starking Starkrimson |