Our Variety Assessment

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

Gaillarde deserves to be better known for the quality of its fruit. Its medium to large apples are delightfully aromatic and have a very good balance of sweetness and acidity. They are picked in late September and keep until November. We recommend it primarily to growers seeking flavour, although susceptibility to apple scab is a genuine limitation in orchards.

Gaillarde

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

A traditional late-season high quality dessert apple from northern France.

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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: 1276 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Gaillarde is a traditional eating apple originating from the north of France near the Belgian border. The apples are large, with a yellow-green skin covered with a red flush.

Unusually for a late-season variety the apples do not keep for long, but they have a crisp flesh and a good sweet-sharp flavour.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Traditional variety from the Boulonnais and Haut-Pays d’Artois areas, formerly grown in high-stem orchards between Audruicq, Éperlecques and Desvres.

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

Sparsely branched tree, scaffold branches with open angles, standard-tree training recommended, type III bearing habit

Disease behaviour

Scab

Moderately susceptible on leaves, low susceptibility on fruits

Powdery mildew

Moderately susceptible

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

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