Pitmaston Pine Apple apple trees
- Gardening skill: Average
- Picking season: Late
- Keeping (of fruit): 2-3 weeks
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Pollination group: 4
- Uses: Eating fresh
- Uses: Juice
Pitmaston Pine Apple is an 18th century English apple, best-known for its distinctive pineapple-like flavor.
It is thought to be a seedling of Golden Pippin, and certainly appears to have inherited the fruity flavor of that variety.
The apples are very small, not much bigger than crab-apples.
Pitmaston Pine Apple apple trees for sale
1-year Pitmaston Pine Apple apple trees bare-root
Small (6ft-9ft) mature height
$29.00
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How to grow
Pitmaston Pine Apple is generally easy to grow. It has a reputation for variable cropping, but in a good year qualifies as a heavy cropper.
Advice on fruit tree pollination.
Historical details
Pitmaston Pine was raised by Mr White, the steward to Lord Foley of Witley in the 1780s. It is a seedling of Golden Pippin, a popular English apple of the period. It was introduced by Mr Williams of Pitmaston near Worcester, England.
Pitmaston Pine Apple characteristics
Using
- Picking season:
Late
- Uses:
Eating fresh Juice
- Cropping:
Heavy
- Keeping (of fruit):
2-3 weeks
- Flavor style (apples):
Sweeter
Growing
- Gardening skill:
Average
- Self-fertility:
Not self-fertile
- Pollination group:
4
- Pollinating others:
Average
- Ploidy:
Diploid
- Vigour:
Average vigour
- Bearing regularity:
Biennial tendency
- Fruit bearing:
Spur-bearer
Disease resistance
- General resistance:
Average
- Scab:
Very resistant
Climate
- Summer average maximum temperatures:
Cool ( 20C - 24C / 68F - 75F)
Identification
- Country of origin:
United Kingdom
- Period of origin:
1750 - 1799
- Fruit color:
Green / Yellow
Similar varieties
Pine Golden PippinA classic English russet apple from the Victorian era, notable for its pineapple-like flavor.
