Our Variety Assessment

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

Tremlett’s Bitter is a full English bittersweet with high sugar and tannin levels. Its deep red apples produce powerful, sweet and strongly astringent juice, excellent for adding body and length to cider blends. The tree can carry heavy crops and suits traditional cider orchards. We do not recommend using it alone in large proportions, as its bitterness can easily dominate the finished cider.

Tremlett’s Bitter

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Tremlett’s Bitter is a traditional English cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.

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

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: 4362 Categories: Apple trees, Cider apple trees

Description

Tremlett’s Bitter is a traditional English cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Traditional cider variety from Devon, England, known since around 1880.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Eating / keeping period

Use

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Synonyms

Tremblett's Bitter

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Moderately vigorous, semi-spreading habit, spur-bearing, tendency to biennial bearing

Disease behaviour

Scab

Slightly susceptible

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 5 - very late.

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