Malus Winter Gem - Eating Apples
Winter Gem is an aromatic dessert apple that was bred in the 1960's in Kent by an amateur apple breeder, Hugh Ermen. The tree is a disease resistant late - and very heavy cropper, producing its red and russet apples for use between October and March. As well as the usual forms of bush and half standard, Winter Gem apple Trees- are ideally suited to making a fruity covering for a fence or wall by being trained as cordons planted at 100cms intervals and grown at an angle of 45 degrees.
Winter Gem is a mid-season flowering pollinator and so needs to be grown with another pollinator or self-fertile apple for both to fruit. For more information on apple pollination and for suitable cross-pollination partners for Winter Gem, please take a look at our Guide to Fruit Pollination.
Your potted tree will need regular watering until its leaves drop in autumn, even if there is some light rain - a good drench once a week should be sufficient.
If you are unclear about fruit tree sizes take a look at our Guide to Fruit Tree Sizing
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