Frederick Apple Trees

'Frederick' Apple Trees : Cooking, Cider

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'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.

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

History & 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'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.