Frederick Apple Trees

Frederick Cider Apple Trees

The Frederick apple tree produces a mid-season cooking & cider apple.

The vintage quality fruit are best used as "full sharp" cider apple and will make a great quality brew all by themselves. They juice beautifully, and also make a delicious, non-astringent soft drink.

They don't store for long, but fortunately they cook well and make superb apple jelly.

Like several great older varieties, this variety tends to be a bit slow to start cropping, and it has a biennial tendency that needs to be managed. Since you could get a poor crop every other year, we recommend having another cider apple tree to guarantee a good yield.

Browse our range of apple trees or the full variety of fruit trees.

Features:

• Use: Cooking. Cider.
• Vintage quality: full sharp.
• Spur Bearer: suitable for cordons & espaliers, trained on wires.
• Growth habit: Average vigour.
• Harvest: Mid October
• Store & ripen in a cool, dry place: Cider apples should be pressed for their juice as quickly as possible. Apples used for cooking will store for 1 month.

Rootstocks:
All of our Frederick trees are grown on MM106 rootstocks.

Pollination Partners for Frederick:
Your trees are self sterile and their flowers must be pollinated to make fruit.
Frederick is in pollination Group D.
This means that they will 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.

Have a look at our quick guide if you are new to brewing cider at home.

History and Trivia

This tree was found growing in the Forest of Dean, Monmouthshire, during the 1800's.

How Apple Trees are Measured & Delivered:
Our fruit trees are delivered in up to 3 shapes and you can also buy selected apple trees as ready made cordons.
Maiden: This unbranched tree is the smallest starting size. You can train maidens into espaliers and cordons.
Cordon: Frederick trees are spur-bearers, so they can be made into cordons and espaliers.
Bush: This is a style of freestanding tree with a short trunk of about 60cm. It will 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.