Precoce de Wirwignes

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

A traditional and heavy-cropping early-season apple variety from Belgium.

Choose your tree form

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: 1302 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Precoce de Wirwignes is sweet/sharp flavored early-season eating apple variety

The apples have a distinctive ribbed green / yellow appearance., with red / orange flecks, and are normally picked in mid-August.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Early variety from the Boulonnais area, rediscovered at Wirwignes and corresponding to Directeur Lesage.

Origin

Belgium

USDA zone

Zone 5 (-29C)

Flowering

2 - early

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Synonyms

Directeur Lesage

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Regular and generous production, interesting tree for family orchards of early varieties

Disease behaviour

Scab

Low susceptibility

Powdery mildew

Susceptible

Additional variety information for Precoce de Wirwignes is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.

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Precoce de Wirwignes

Variety characteristics

Origin and identity

Growth and adaptation

Disease behaviour

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