Our Variety Assessment

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

Wickson Crab is an exceptional small American apple combining very high sugar, bright acidity and intense aroma. It produces lively, powerful and fragrant cider, sometimes with an almost wine-like character, and can also be used for jelly or fresh eating. Its abundant blossom makes it a useful pollinator. The main disadvantage is the time-consuming harvest caused by the very small fruit.

Wickson Crab

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Wickson crab is a popular American hard-cider variety.

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

G11 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

M25 – approx. 6 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 4364 Categories: Apple trees, Cider apple trees

Description

Wickson Crab is a popular crab apple with dense white blossom followed by attractive pink/red flushed apples, which are large by crab-apple standrds.

Wickson Crab apples contain plenty of pectin and are therefore useful in the kitchen for jams and jellies.

Unusually for a crab apple, Wickson Crab is also very sweet. The high sugar content is balanced by a strong acid content, and this potent combination makes the juice of Wickson Crab very popular for cider production in the United States.