Our Variety Assessment

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

Jacques Lebel is a benchmark French cooking apple. Its very large fruit is juicy, sharp and rich in pectin, producing excellent sauces, pies, jellies and juice. The vigorous, hardy tree is best suited to larger orchards. The apples have limited storage and may drop when ripe. As a triploid cultivar, it does not provide useful pollen for other apple trees.

Jacques Lebel

Price range: 26,50 € through 38,00 €

A high quality French cooking apple with a crisp juicy acidic flesh.

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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

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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: 1282 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

The large flat-round Jacques Lebel apples are predominantly green, but often with an orange flush. They ripen over a period in late August / early September, and can be used immediately or stored until Christmas.

The flesh is light, with a juicy sweet / sharp acidity and a high vitamin C content.

Jacques Lebel is primarily a cooking apple, with a notably high pectin content. It is therefore ideal for jams and preserves, and the flesh breaks down quickly into a stiff puree. It can also be used in apple tarts, where the slices will soften but retain their shape. For best results for cooking we recommend the apples are picked slightly underripe, when they have the maximum juicy acidity.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Old 19th-century French variety, associated with northern France and widely grown in open-grown orchards.

Origin

France

USDA zone

Zone 5 (-29C)

Flowering

4 - late

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Parentage unknown

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Very vigorous, excellent vegetative quality, suited to standard trees, triploid

Disease behaviour

Scab

Very susceptible on fruit

Powdery mildew

Low susceptibility

Canker

Susceptible to moderately susceptible

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 4 - late.

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Additional variety information for Jacques Lebel is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.