CrimsonCrispTM apple trees
- Gardening skill: Suitable for beginners
- Picking season: Mid
- Keeping (of fruit): 3 months or more
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Pollination group: 3
- Uses: Eating fresh
- Uses: Juice
CrimsonCrisp is a modern scab-resistant apple. The skin has a yellow background, but predominantly dark crimson red.
As the name suggests, the flesh is very crisp, juicy and snaps cleanly, but not dense.
CrimsonCrisp apple trees for sale
1-year CrimsonCrisp apple trees bare-root
Small (6ft-9ft) mature height
$31.00
1-year CrimsonCrisp apple trees bare-root
Medium (8ft-12ft) mature height
$31.00
You can pre-order trees now for delivery when shipping starts (fall for warmer zones, or next spring), you won't be asked to pay until nearer the time.
*Find out more about the apple rootstocks we use to control the mature height.
How to grow
A particular feature of CrimsonCrisp is that the apples will hang on the tree for a very long time - up to 4 weeks - whilst maintaining eating quality. This makes it ideal for the backyard orchard as you can pick fresh apples straight from the tree over a long period. The apples can be kept for several months in a refrigerator or cold garage, retaining good eating quality although the flavor will fade somewhat.
CrimsonCrisp is field-immune to apple scab disease, but has some susceptibility to fireblight.
Advice on fruit tree pollination.
Historical details
CrimsonCrisp was developed in the 1970s by the well-regarded PRI co-operative of Purdue, Rutgers, and Illinois universities. It was originally known as Co-op 39. Its ancestry is complex, but it is distantly related to the crab-apple Malus floribunda, from which it inherits genes which confer good resistance to apple scab.
CrimsonCrisp characteristics
Using
- Picking season:
Mid
- Uses:
Eating fresh Juice
- Cropping:
Good
- Keeping (of fruit):
3 months or more
- Flavor style (apples):
Sweet/Sharp
- Juice style:
Sweeter
- Fruit persistence:
Ripens over a period
Growing
- Gardening skill:
Suitable for beginners
- Self-fertility:
Not self-fertile
- Pollination group:
3
- Pollinating others:
Average
- Ploidy:
Diploid
- Vigour:
Slightly small
Disease resistance
- General resistance:
Good
- Cedar apple rust:
Some resistance
- Fireblight:
Some susceptibility
- Mildew:
Some susceptibility
- Scab:
Very resistant
Climate
- Summer average maximum temperatures:
Cool ( 20C - 24C / 68F - 75F) Warm (25C - 30C / 76F - 85F)
Identification
- Country of origin:
United States
- Period of origin:
1950 - 1999
- Fruit color:
Crimson
- Fruit size:
Average
