Sweet Coppin cider apple tree

• Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
• Pollination group: 3
• Uses: Hard cider
• List of other varieties that will pollinate Sweet Coppin

A traditional English cider variety, producing a sweet juice.

Sweet Coppin cider apple trees for sale

• Small 1-year bare-root tree $35.95
  Mature height: 6ft-9ft after 10 years
  Dwarf rootstock
  

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Sweet Coppin is a good quality traditional English cider variety, producing a sweet juice which is low in tannin and acid. It is therefore a good variety for providing sweetness to tannic or sharp blends.

How to grow

Sweet Coppin is a weak-growing, heavy-cropping variety - a combination that invariably leads to biennial bearing in cider apples. Counter this by thinning the fruitlets to prevent it setting an over-heavy crop.

Advice on fruit tree pollination.

History

Sweet Coppin originates from the south-western English county of Devon.

Sweet Coppin characteristics

• Gardening skillAverage
• Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
• Pollination group3
• Pollinating othersAverage
• PloidyDiploid
• Bearing regularityBiennial tendency
• WildlifeRHS Plants for Pollinators
• Picking seasonVery late
• UsesHard cider
• CroppingLight
• Keeping (of fruit)1-3 days
• Juice styleSweet (cider)
• General resistanceAverage
• MildewSome susceptibility
• Cold hardiness (USDA)(5) -20F / -29C
• Summer maximum temperaturesCool ( 20-24C / 68-75F)
• Country of originUnited Kingdom
• Period of origin1850 - 1899
• Fruit colorGreen / Red
• Fruit sizeLarge