Silver Creek Nursery Ltd.

Fréquin Rouge Apple Bareroot

History: A highly regarded cider apple of Normandy, France, where it has been grown for centuries. This cultivar is one of the traditional cultivars in the production of calvados (a brandy made from apples and sometimes pears) in the Pays d’Auge region.

Why we grow it: This cider apple has a unique spicy flavour that is high in tannins, low in acidity, and low in sugar. With it's rich history and beautiful brass coloured juice, this cultivar is a must in every well-rounded cider orchard. 

    $56.50

    Rootstock:
    Size

    65 in stock

    Fruit Traits:

    Recommended Use: Cider

    Fruit Size: Medium

    Storage: Press within a few weeks of harvest

    Harvest: October - Early

    Cider Class (if applicable):

    • Bittersweet

    Class: Bittersweet
    Sugar: Medium, SG 1.047
    Acidity: Low, 2.6 g/L
    Tannins: High, 3 g/L
    Juice Yield: 251 mL/lb
    Taste: Pronounced bitterness with notes of clove, nutmeg, musk and leather
    Recommendations: Best in blends where it can boost tannins, complexity, and colour with its brass-coloured juice. Can also be used to make single-variety ciders.
    *Information based on Washington State University's "Cultivar Performance Gallery"

    Tree Traits:

    Canadian Hardiness Zone: 4

    Soil Preferance: Sandy loam, loam, clay loam. Prefers average to moist conditions, avoid planting anywhere that floods for more than two weeks in the spring. Generally quite adaptable to different soil conditions.

    Flowering Time: Middle

    Bloom Colour: White

    Pollination Requirements: Requires a pollinator of a different apple variety that blooms around the same time.

    Sun/Shade Requirements: Full sun (approx. 8-10 hours of sun daily)

    General Growth Habit: Moderately vigorous and precocious with an upright growth habit, spur bearing, heavy cropper with strong biennial tendency; we strongly recommend thinning fruit to help balance the biennial habit. Resistant to brown rot, but generally poor overall disease resistance.

    Overall Disease Resistance Rating*: Low

    *this rating is combined with our experience growing in our test orchards combined with already available information on the cultivar.

    Shipping: Every year we ship thousands of plants across Canada. We carefully bag roots in damp sawdust, then box them and send them out via courier. CLICK HERE to see our shipping policy.

    Pick-up: We also have thousands of trees picked up from our nursery each year. The pick-up options is free, though you must wait until you have been emailed a confirmation that your order is ready to pick up, which will have further information such as hours, locations, etc.

    We have simplified our crop inventory for grafted fruit trees into two sizes:

    1m+ Grade: this often has some feathering, and is measured including the rootstock.

    50-80cm Grade: this is like a 'b-grade' tree, sometimes with minor scaring or bent, these trees are priced accordingly.

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