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Idared apple trees

Pick: Late-season Flowering group: 2 Uses: Eat fresh | Cookery | Juicing

Idared is an attractive late-season American apple, with a mild flavour, useful for both eating fresh and cooking.

Idared is also an excellent apple for juicing, a quality which is inherited by Fiesta, one of its descendants.

Idared has exceptional keeping qualities, and can be stored in a domestic fridge for at least 6 months.

Order now for delivery September 2013 onwards

Idared apple trees for sale

Mature height*	Supplied as	Price** inc. delivery	Quantity required
Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)
Medium (2.2m - 3m)	1-year - Bare-root - M26 rootstock	£29.00

**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.

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Alternatives to Idared apple trees

Late-season (3)
Eat | Juice

Fiesta apple trees

Fiesta is related to Idared, and shares its excellent juicing and keeping properties.

Late-season (3)
Eat

Herefordshire Russet apple trees

This russet apple is also related to Idared.

Summary features of Idared

Growing

Gardening skill: Easy(explain)
Cropping: Heavy
Fertility: Not self-fertile(explain)
Flowering group: 2(explain)
Pollinating others: Average(explain)
Ploidy: Diploid(explain)
Vigour: Average growth(explain)
Precocity: Precocious(explain)
Bearing regularity: Regular(explain)
Fruit bearing: Spur-bearer(explain)
Fruit persistence: Ripens over a period(explain)
Overall disease resistance: Average(explain)
Mildew: Some susceptibility(explain)
Fireblight: Some susceptibility(explain)
Cedar apple rust: Some susceptibility(explain)

Uses

Picking season: Late(explain)
Use / keeping: 3 months or more(explain)
Flavour quality: Good(explain)
Flavour style: Sweet/Sharp
Good for eating fresh
Good for cooking
Good for juice
Drying / Discoloring: Oxidising(explain)

Identification

Country of origin: United States
Period of origin: 1900 - 1949
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Leaf colour: Green

Climate

Frost resistance: Good resistance(explain)
Warm climates
Temperate climates
Cold hardiness: -20F / -29C(explain)

Pollination guide for Idared

Idared is in flowering group 2. Idared is self-sterile and needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby.

How to grow Idared apple trees

Idared has some susceptibility to mildew but is generally an easy variety to grow, but is likely to do better in the drier eastern side of the UK.

It is fairly precocious and usually a heavy-cropper.

The blossom has some frost-resistance.

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Historical details

Developed at the Idaho Agricultural Experimental Station, 1930s. Idared is a cross between Jonathan and Wagener.

Botanical name

Malus domestica Idared

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Idared apple trees

Idared apple trees for sale

Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Alternatives to Idared apple trees

Summary features of Idared

Growing

Uses

Identification

Climate

Pollination guide for Idared

How to grow Idared apple trees

Varieties with similar picking times to Idared

Historical details

Botanical name

Malus domestica Idared

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