Our Variety Assessment

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

Gris Brabant is an old grey russet valued for reliable cropping and long storage. Its fine-textured flesh is both sweet and sharp after picking, becoming sweeter and more supple in storage without turning mealy. The fruit is suitable for fresh eating and cooking. As a triploid and poor pollinator, the tree requires two other compatible apple varieties nearby.

Gris Brabant

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

An old russeted apple variety producing sweet reinette-type fruit with excellent keeping qualities.

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1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

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Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

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SKU: 20619 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Gris Brabant Apple Tree is an old apple variety also known as Gris Braibant or Reinette Grise du Brabant. It produces medium-sized rounded fruit with a rough green-ochre to grey-russet skin, sometimes slightly flushed on the sunny side.

The flesh is sweet and aromatic, with the typical character of a reinette apple. Gris Brabant is suitable for fresh eating, cooking, juice and cider, making it a versatile variety for traditional orchards.

This variety is appreciated for its good keeping qualities, with fruit capable of storing for several months under suitable conditions. It is also reported to be relatively tolerant of apple scab, while showing average sensitivity to powdery mildew and canker.

Gris Brabant is considered a traditional variety in Belgium and northern France, and remains interesting for heritage orchards thanks to its rustic character, regular productivity and long storage potential.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Very old traditional Belgian peasant variety, distributed by the RGF-Gembloux network.

Origin

France

USDA zone

Zone 5 (-29C)

Flowering

4 - late

Eating / keeping period

3 month

Use

Cooking, Fresh eating

Sweetness / acidity

Very sweet

Disease resistance

Very good

Pollinator value

Bad pollinizer

Origin and identity

Synonyms

Gris Braibant, Grisette, Carpent Vert, Reinette Grise

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Fertile tree, suited to all forms, also interesting as a central-leader tree, fruit with very long keeping ability

Disease behaviour

Scab

Low susceptibility on fruits, moderately susceptible on leaves

Powdery mildew

Moderately susceptible

Canker

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.

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