Vilberie cider apple tree

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• Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
• Pollination group: 6
• Uses: Hard cider

Vilberie is a traditional French hard-cider variety, producing a very tannic but sweet bittersweet juice.

The juice would normally be blended with juice from other varieties to produce a balanced cider.

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• Semi-dwarf 1-year bare-root tree $37.95
  Mature height: 8ft-12ft after 10 years
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How to grow

Like a number of traditional English and French cider varieties, Vilberie is very late-blooming - in southern England or northern France it will typically flower in the last week of May. This can make cross-pollination an issue unless you have other late-flowering varieties available, although it seems to have reasonable self-fertility.

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History

Vilberie is an old French variety, introduced to England in the late 19th century.

Vilberie characteristics

• Gardening skillExperienced
• Self-fertilityPartially self-fertile
• Pollination group6
• Pollinating othersAverage
• Picking seasonVery late
• UsesHard cider
• Keeping (of fruit)2-3 weeks
• General resistanceAverage
• FireblightSome susceptibility
• Cold hardiness (USDA)Zone 5 (-29C)
• Summer maximum temperaturesCool ( 20-24C / 68-75F)Warm (25-30C / 76-85F)
• Country of originFrance
• Period of origin1800 - 1849
• Fruit colorGreen