Dunkertons Late Cider Apple Trees The Dunkertons Late apple tree produces a late season cider apple. Browse our full range of apple trees for sale or see the full variety of fruit trees available online. Features Use: Cider. Sweet. Spur Bearer: suitable for cordons & espaliers, trained on wires. Tree's growth habit: Average vigour. Harvest: Early November. Cider apples should be pressed for their juice as quickly as possible. General description of Dunkertons Late: This sweet cider apple makes a light, fruit brew by itself, almost good enough to qualify for vintage status. Adding a few other types of apple will round out the flavour and give it more body. These fruit are green when they're young, turning slightly yellow (occasionally with a touch of red, if the winter is sunny) when they're ripe. Rootstocks: All of our Dunkertons Late trees are grown on MM106 rootstocks. Pollination Partners for Dunkertons Late:. Your trees are self sterile and their flowers must be pollinated to make fruit. Dunkertons Late is in pollination Group D. This means that they'll cross-pollinate with other apple trees in pollination Groups C, D and E. See our Guide to Apple Tree Pollination for a full list of partners & more tips about pollination. Dunkertons Late Disease notes: Disease resistance: Scab History & Parentage: This Somerset apple was found by Mr Dunkerton in his orchard in Baltonsborough, during the 1940's. How Apple Trees are Measured & Delivered: Our fruit trees are delivered in up to 3 shapes. If you want a cordon, fan or espalier, you just buy a maiden and train it yourself: we can pre-prune your maidens to whichever form you choose and we send you instructions at pruning time in subsequent years. Maiden: This unbranched tree is the smallest starting size. You can train maidens into espaliers and cordons. Bush: This is a style of freestanding tree with a short trunk of about 60cm. It'll grow to about 3 metres tall. Half-Standard: This is a freestanding style that will grow into a full sized, "normal" apple tree, about 4 metres tall.
