Our Variety Assessment

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

Granny Smith remains a benchmark for growers who enjoy exceptionally crisp, juicy and distinctly sharp apples. It is excellent for fresh eating, salads, sauces and baking, with very good storage potential. We recommend it only for warm, sunny positions. Its extremely late ripening makes it unreliable in northern Europe and regions with short, cool autumns.

Granny Smith

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Granny Smith is the world-famous green apple from Australia, a good choice for warmer apple-growing regions.

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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: 4318 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Granny Smith is usually available year-round in supermarkets, and most of us are familiar with the dense sharp acidic flavour – so why grow your own? Well, the flavour of home-grown examples can be more complex and interesting, particularly if you allow the apples to ripen fully on the tree – at which point the characteristic bright green skin is likely to take on a red flush that you won’t see in shop-bought examples.

Granny Smith is a versatile apple, great for eating fresh of course, but also a good apple for sweet and savoury salads (since it does not go brown readily) and a good choice for apple pies – slices keep their shape when cooked. (For best cooking results, pick when slightly under-ripe).

It also keeps well – it is one of the best apples for home storage.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Chance seedling discovered in 1868 at Eastwood, near Sydney, Australia, by Maria Ann Smith.

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

Uncertain parentage

Synonyms

Smith’s Seedling

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Vigorous, upright to spreading habit, requires a long warm season

Disease behaviour

Scab

Susceptible

Powdery mildew

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 Granny Smith is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.