Our Variety Assessment

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

Mutsu, also known as Crispin, produces very large green to yellow apples with sweet, juicy and aromatic flesh. They are excellent for fresh eating, juice and cooking, retaining their shape particularly well when heated. This late cultivar can become biennial under heavy cropping. As a triploid and poor pollinator, it requires two other compatible apple varieties nearby.

Mutsu

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Mutsu is a high quality dual-purpose apple from Japan, with a good flavour for eating fresh, and also sharp enough for cooking.

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: 4325 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Mutsu is an unusually versatile apple. Its large size and juicy acidity make it an excellent apple for the kitchen. Slices keep their shape when baked, but it can also be cooked for apple sauce, and slices can be dried too.

Its Golden Delicious parentage also lends it an excellent sweet flavor for eating fresh, particularly if you like sharper apples. In a good year from a good tree, Mutsu’s crisp sharp-sweet flavour can be very good indeed.

There are many good dual-purpose apples but most of them are better at cooking than for eating fresh or vice versa. Mutsu is equally good in both roles.