Kidds Orange Red Apple Trees Kidds Orange Red has all the traits of a classic English apple, with a deliciously aromatic, sweet flavour. The yellow skin becomes mostly covered with a red blush as it ripens and there is a little russeting: a very handsome fruit, and the tree in flower is a beautiful sight. The flesh is firm and chewy, holding its juiciness to the last chomp. The trees are much less temperamental than their Cox parent and the fruit are superb for juicing. ~Pick in mid-October and your fruit'll store till the new year. Browse our range of apple trees or the full variety of fruit trees. Features Eating apple and juicer. Sweet-sharp flavour Spur bearer Not self fertile. Pollinator Pollination Group D. Harvesting: Mid October. Stores until new year. RHS Plants for Pollinators RHS Award of Garden Merit Pollination Guide for Kidd's Orange Red In flower in the mid-late season, Kidd's Orange Red is in pollination group D and being self-sterile needs a partner in groups D, D or E for cross-pollination. If in doubt, we always recommend using a crab apple tree, as they're very ornamental, bear great fruit for cooking with and are the best pollinators. Rootstocks and Cultivation Notes All of these trees are on MM106 rootstocks, the best all-round rootstock; these are suitable for wire-trained forms and larger orchard trees, up to 4 metres high. Much more disease resistant that a Cox, Kidd's Orange Red is still susceptible to canker, which tends to be more of a problem in the damper areas in the West of the country, and therefore we don't recommend them for organic growing. They're hardy trees and will do very well in Scotland and the North. They're not the most vigorous, but the crops are reliable and the tree doesn't have a pronounced biennial tendency. Because of their relative lack of vigour, mature trees need little pruning and you don't need to thin the fruit too much - just pick off any small, malformed and diseased fruitlets after the June drop.
