Winter Gem Eating Apple Trees

Winter Gem Apple Trees: Eating, Late Season

With its sensational, rich taste and keeping properties Winter Gem is really useful, maintaining that late apple season into the New Year. It's an exceptional eating apple, outstandingly aromatic, with just the right mix of acid, juiciness and sweetness, but only entrepreneurial farm shops stock it from small growers.

Ripening in late October, perfect for apple bobbing, it is one of the last eaters to crop, when the medium-sized green fruit are flushed with red.
The average crop size suits the home grower with limited storage space.

It flowers in the first half of May producing white and fragrant blossom.

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Delivery season: Bareroot plants are delivered in late Autumn to Spring, about November-March inclusive. Pot grown plants, year round.

Features:

• Use: Eating
• Not commercially grown
• Modest crop size
• Spur bearer (good for cordons & espaliers)
• Pollination: Self Sterile
• Pollination: Group D
• White blossom
• Picking: late October
• Apple colour: Red/Green
• Storage: Excellent

Growing Winter Gem Apples

Apples like rich, well drained soil, and will thrive on clay in locations that do not get waterlogged in winter.
A full day of sun and shelter from the wind is ideal.

Disease Notes:
Extremely resistant to bitter pit and cankers.

Rootstocks:
We use MM106 for Winter Gem, the UK standard for medium-sized trees, ideal for gardeners. It gives a half-standard about 4m tall, and a bush about 3m.
MM106 maidens are suitable for cordons and espaliers, but we use the less vigorous M9 for our ready-made cordons.

Pollination Partners

Your trees are self sterile and their flowers must be pollinated to make fruit.
Winter Gem is in Pollination Group D, which cross-pollinates with other apple trees in Groups C, D, and E.

Discovery, which crops in August, and Blenheim Orange in September would make a great set of partners.

Use our Fruit Pollination Checker to quickly find pollination partners, or Apple Tree Pollination Guide to learn more.