Our Variety Assessment

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

Cripps Pink produces very firm, crisp and juicy apples with a strong balance of sweetness and acidity. Its pink colouring and excellent storage make it attractive to growers seeking a modern dessert apple. We recommend it only for warm, sunny locations. Early flowering and an exceptionally late harvest make it unreliable in regions with short or cool autumns.

Cripp’s Pink

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Cripps Pink is is a well-known modern apple variety, well-suited to the warmer apple-growing regions.

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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

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: 4310 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Cripps Pink is an attractive modern apple variety from Australia. Its distinctive pink/red colour and pleasant flavour make it an interesting variety for the gardener or home orchardist. The blossom is also very attractive.

The apples ripen in late October or early November, and can be stored in a fridge for several months.

Although normally considered a variety for eating fresh, Cripps Pink is a good stewing apple – the dense chewy flesh softens nicely with cooking. It also produces a good plain apple juice with a primarily sweet flavour.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Variety bred by John Cripps in Western Australia, at the Stoneville station, selected in the 1970s and from the Pink Lady programme.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Golden Delicious × Lady Williams

Synonyms

Pink Lady®

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Strong vigour, early flowering, very late harvest, requires a long warm season

Disease behaviour

Scab

Susceptible

Powdery mildew

Fairly susceptible

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 3 - mid season.

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Additional variety information for Cripp's Pink is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.