Our Variety Assessment

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

Kidd’s Orange Red is an outstanding dessert apple combining the aromatic complexity of Cox with greater sweetness. Its firm, crisp and juicy flesh develops rich fruity and gently spiced flavours. The apples keep until around the end of the year. The tree crops fairly reliably but not especially heavily, so its main strength is exceptional eating quality rather than maximum yield.

Kidd’s Orange Red

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Kidd’s Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.

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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

G11 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 4324 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Kidd’s Orange Red is one of the select band of apple varieties which can truly be said to rival the definitive Cox’s Orange Pippin for flavour. It is primarily a sweet apple, but unlike most sweet apples it has a rich complexity to the flavours too. Kidd’s Orange Red is fairly crisp but also pleasantly chewy, and each bite seems to release yet more juice and flavour.

Kidd’s Orange Red is a popular variety in English gardens, but it was actually raised in New Zealand at the start of the 20th century by J.H. Kidd, who was an enthusiast of the English Cox’s Orange Pippin apple which is one of the parents of Kidd’s Orange Red.

The tree grows attractively, and the crimson pink blossom is a particular feature – it has a rose-like scent too.

Although primarily an apple for eating fresh, Kidd’s Orange Red also produces a high quality sweet apple juice, with a pleasing thick texture.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

New Zealand variety bred by James Hutton Kidd in 1924 in the Cox / Delicious line.

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

Cox’s Orange Pippin × Delicious

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Medium to strong vigour, fairly spreading habit, improved Cox type, good flowering quality

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 Kidd's Orange Red is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.