Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Transparente de Lesdain is a valuable improvement over Croncels for growers seeking more reliable cropping and better disease resistance. This Belgian selection produces abundant crisp, juicy apples with a balanced sweet-sharp flavour. The tree is highly disease-resistant and an excellent pollinator. Fruit ripens around mid-September but normally stores for no longer than about one month.

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Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Transparente de Lesdain apple tree, a crisp balanced Belgian apple, very disease resistant, picked in mid-September.

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Dispatch generally takes place from late November to February, depending on the weather and the progress of lifting the trees.

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1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Apple rootstock options

Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 6240 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Transparente de Lesdain apple tree produces crisp apples with a well-balanced ratio between sweetness and acidity.

The apples are picked in mid-September and can be stored for about one month.

This variety has very good disease resistance. It was selected with this quality in mind and comes from a seedling obtained from a cross between old apple varieties.

Flowering is mid-season. Transparente de Lesdain is a very good pollinator and can itself be pollinated by Gueule de Mouton, or by any other good pollinating apple variety flowering at the same time.

Transparente de Lesdain is a fairly recent Belgian variety, considered a useful replacement for Transparente de Croncels. It also shows very good, regular productivity from year to year.

We supply Transparente de Lesdain as a one-year maiden apple tree, available on several rootstocks depending on availability.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

New RGF-Gembloux variety from the CRA-W breeding work, released under the name Transparente de Lesdain.

Origin

Belgium

USDA zone

Zone 5 (-29C)

Flowering

3 - mid season, 4 - late

Harvest period

September 15-30

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

CRA-W AY 88 selection, parentage not published

Synonyms

AY 88

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Very hardy tree, very fertile, easy to train, early bearing, suited to central-leader training

Disease behaviour

Scab

Very low susceptibility

Powdery mildew

Low to moderately susceptible

Canker

Fairly susceptible

Pollination

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