Wickson Crab cider apple trees

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• Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
• Flowering group: 2

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.

Wickson Crab organic cider apple trees - graft to order

Custom graft varieties: Order before end of December 2023 for delivery in December 2024.

• 1Maidentree on M9 rootstock 24.95€
  Small tree (1.5m-2.5m after 10 years) Custom graft
  

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• 2Maidentree on M116 rootstock 24.95€
  Medium tree (2m-3.5m after 10 years) Custom graft
  

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• 3Maidentree on MM111 rootstock 24.95€
  Large tree (3m-5m after 10 years) Custom graft
  

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• 4Maidentree on Bittenfelder rootstock 24.95€
  Very large tree (5m-6m+ after 10 years) Custom graft
  

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Growing and Training

Wickson Crab is a small and hardy tree. It has a wide climate range, and is suitable for both northern areas and warm climates.

History

Wickson was developed by the Californian apple enthusiast Albert Etter and released in 1947. Etter named the variety after the Californian pomologist Edward J. Wickson who was one of the few experts at the time who took Etter's breeding program seriously.

Etter claimed that Wickson Crab was developed from a Spitzenburg crab and a Newtown crab, although no such varieties exist, and it is thought there is no relation with the well-known traditional American apple varieties Esopus Spitzenburg and Newtown Pippin. A more likely parent would have been Transcendent Crab, which Etter is known to have used in his Etter's Gold variety, and which shares many similar characterstics.

Wickson Crab characteristics

• Gardening skillAverage
• Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
• Flowering group2
• Pollinating othersGood
• PloidyDiploid
• Climate suitabilityTemperate climatesWarm climates
• Picking periodmid-November
• Picking seasonLate
• Season of use2-3 weeks
• CroppingHeavy
• Food usesJuiceHard cider
• ScabSome susceptibility
• Fruit colourOrange / Red