Our Variety Assessment

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

Braeburn is an excellent modern apple for European regions with sufficiently warm autumns. Its very firm, crisp and juicy flesh has a pronounced balance of sweetness and acidity, combined with excellent storage potential. We recommend a warm, sunny position. In colder or less sunny regions, the fruit may ripen too late and fail to develop its full sweetness and flavour.

Braeburn

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Braeburn is one of the best-flavoured supermarket apple varieties.

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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: 4308 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Braeburn is one of the most important commercial apple varieties, grown in all the major warm-climate apple producing areas of the world. It has a very good flavour when grown in the right conditions, and stores extremely well. It is a good choice for the home orchard, provided you are in an areay with a warm autumn climate.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Chance seedling discovered in 1952 at Waiwhero, near Motueka, New Zealand, then named after Braeburn Orchard.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Delicious × Sturmer Pippin

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Strong vigour when young, then medium after cropping begins, spreading habit, heavy production, partially self-fertile but better with a pollinator

Disease behaviour

Scab

Very susceptible

Powdery mildew

Susceptible to very 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 Braeburn is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.