Our Variety Assessment

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

Ascahire is a northern French variety particularly well suited to cool climates and growing. The vigorous, cold-hardy tree has good disease resistance and reliably produces large yellow-orange apples. Their lively sweet-sharp flavour works well for fresh eating, cooking and juice. The variety is not self-fertile and therefore requires a compatible pollinating apple tree nearby.

Ascahire

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

A large reliable cooking apple from northern France which is particularly good for juicing.

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: 1197 Categories: Apple trees, Cider apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Ascahire is a large apple with a sharp flavour. It is primarily grown for juicing but can also be eaten fresh or used in the kitchen. The apples are ready to pick in late September.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Old variety found only once as a high-stem tree at La Groise, in Avesnois-Thiérache, probably not strictly local as it is present under other names in several regions.

Origin

France

USDA zone

Zone 5 (-29C)

Flowering

3 - mid season, 4 - late

Harvest period

September 15-30

Eating / keeping period

2 month

Use

Cooking, Fresh eating, Juice