Our Variety Assessment

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

Baguette Violette is an excellent regional apple for family orchards in northern Europe. Very hardy, productive and generally resistant to disease, it produces apples with a pleasant balance of sweetness and acidity. We also value its long, slightly late blossom period. The fruit should be eaten relatively quickly, as acidity falls and the flesh soon becomes mealy.

Baguette Violette

Price range: 26,50 € through 38,00 €

Baguette Violette is a traditional French late-season dessert apple.

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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

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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: 1213 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Baguette Violette is a traditional French late-season dessert apple.

The apples have an excellent sweet / sharp balance, but do not keep for long and are best eaten within a few weeks after they ripen in late September.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Very local old variety from the Thiérache area of Aisne, found at Lemé, Ohis and Étréaupont, with no findings outside this area according to genetic analyses.

Origin

France

USDA zone

Zone 5 (-29C)

Flowering

4 - late, 5 - very late

Harvest period

September 15-30

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Productive, straggly habit with long fruiting branches arching under the weight of the fruit, good pollinator

Disease behaviour

Scab

Very low susceptibility

Powdery mildew

Very low susceptibility

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

These varieties flower at a compatible time and are the most relevant matches in the catalogue. Flowering period: 4 - late, 5 - very late.

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Harvest calendar

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At the same time

September 15-30

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Additional variety information for Baguette Violette is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.