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Tickled Pink apple trees

Pick: Late-season    Flowering group: 4       Uses: Eat fresh | Cookery | Juicing 
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Baya® Marisa

Tickled Pink (Baya® Marisa) is a new dual-purpose apple variety with a remarkable and unusual red flesh. We worked alongside the Frank P. Matthews nursery in the West Midlands to introduce this new variety to the UK in 2011.

On the tree the apples appear just like any other red apple, but cut one open and the striking red flesh is revealed. The flavour is tart but pleasantly mild, and the flesh is very juicy.

The blossom is a particularly attractive feature of this variety, being a deep solid crimson red - making it an excellent ornamental feature in the spring garden.

As you might expect Tickled Pink is also a useful apple for the kitchen. The slices keep their shape when cooked, and have an attractive pink colouring. The juice is also pink.

Stocks are limited and orders will be satisfied on a first-come first-served basis.

Order now for delivery September 2013 onwards

Tickled Pink apple trees for sale

Mature height*Supplied asPrice**
inc. delivery		Quantity
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Pot-grown fruit trees (Delivery start September 2013)

Medium (2.2m - 3m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - M26 rootstock
Baya® Marisa		£38.00
Large (3m - 4m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - MM106 rootstock
Baya® Marisa		£38.00

Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)1-year - Bare-root - M9 rootstock
Baya® Marisa		£35.00
Medium (2.2m - 3m)1-year - Bare-root - M26 rootstock
Baya® Marisa		£35.00
Large (3m - 4m)1-year - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock
Baya® Marisa		£35.00

**All prices include delivery. We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

Delivery period: Pot-grown trees can be delivered from September onwards. Bare-root trees can be delivered from mid-November onwards. Within those periods you can specify your preferred month of delivery during the checkout process. It is best to order as soon as you can to ensure items are reserved for you.

*Mature heights: Height shown is the approximate height of the tree when mature (after 5-10 years), not the height when supplied. See photos of trees as supplied. Actual mature heights may vary considerably dependent on your local conditions and training and pruning regime - see our Tree Height Calculator.

Fruit tree guarantee

Stock availability: Items showing as 'sold out' will probably be available again next season. Click here to be notified when we get more trees of this variety.



Alternatives to Tickled Pink apple trees

Alternative fruit trees - Rosette apple trees
Early-season  (2)  
Eat | Juice 

Rosette apple trees

A new eating apple with attractive pink flesh. One of the best apples for juicing (the juice is pink).




Summary features of Tickled Pink

Growing

Uses

Identification

  • Country of origin: Germany
  • Period of origin: 2000
  • Fruit colour: Red
  • Blossom colour: Crimson
  • Leaf colour: Green

Climate

  • Temperate climates


Pollination guide for Tickled Pink

Tickled Pink is in flowering group 4. Tickled Pink is self-sterile and needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby.



How to grow Tickled Pink apple trees

Apple growers have been trying to develop red-fleshed apples for more than a century. Much of the early work was carried out in California by apple enthusiast Albert Etter, who started with a red-fleshed crab apple brought to the USA from eastern Europe by German settlers. Many of these varieties suffer from weak growth, biennial bearing, and below-average disease resistance, as well as an indifferent flavour. Tickled Pink has been developed specifically for the commercial grower and amateur gardener and has greatly improved horticultural characteristics, including some scab tolerance.

The main thing to look out for is over-cropping, which can be addressed by thinning the fruitlets in June.



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Historical details

Germany 2009. This variety is registered under the trademark name Baya® Marisa.



Botanical name

Malus domestica Tickled Pink



Related variety collections

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