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Mutsu (Crispin) apple trees

Pick: Late-season    Flowering group: 3       Uses: Eat fresh | Cookery | Juicing 
Mutsu (Crispin) apple tree

Mutsu is a rather unusual 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.

However Mutsu's Golden Delicious parentage also lends it an excellent sweet flavor for eating fresh. In a good year from a good tree, Mutsu's crisp sharp-sweet flavor can be very good indeed.

All in all this is a very versatile apple, and one of that select band of apple varieties that is equally good for eating fresh or in the kitchen.

Order now for delivery September 2013 onwards

Mutsu (Crispin) apple trees for sale

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Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Medium (2.2m - 3m)1-year - Bare-root - M26 rootstock £29.00
Large (3m - 4m)1-year - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £29.00
Large (3m - 4m)2-year bush-trained - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £32.00
Large (3m - 4m)Half-standard - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £35.00

Bare-root cordon fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)Cordon - Bare-root - M9 rootstock £34.00

**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 Mutsu (Crispin) apple trees

Alternative fruit trees - Greensleeves apple trees
Mid-season  (2)  
Eat | Juice 

Greensleeves apple trees

Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive.




Summary features of Mutsu (Crispin)

Growing

Uses

Identification

  • Country of origin: Japan
  • Period of origin: 1900 - 1949
  • Fruit colour: Green
  • Blossom colour: White
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Popular variety

Climate



Pollination guide for Mutsu (Crispin)

Mutsu (Crispin) is in flowering group 3. Mutsu (Crispin) is a triploid variety and cannot pollinate other varieties. It needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby. You can either plant a self-fertile variety (which will pollinate itself and the Mutsu (Crispin)) or you can plant two pollination partners which must each be of different varieties and able to cross-pollinate each other as well as the Mutsu (Crispin). If you need further advice on this just get in touch. Since it flowers in the middle of the blossom season it can be pollinated by most other apple trees.



How to grow Mutsu (Crispin) apple trees

The main thing to be aware of is that Mutsu is a triploid variety, and needs two separate pollination partners nearby. Despite its all-round eating and culinary ability it is therefore best as a third tree in a collection rather than as your only apple tree. Apple trees in neighboring gardens will help as well of course. Disease resistance is not great, but it is a strong-growing tree that can tolerate a few problems without too much effect.

Mutsu likes a warm climate but with cool autumn nights.



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Historical details

Developed in Japan in the 1930s, a cross between Golden Delicious and Indo. Known both as Mutsu and Crispin.



Botanical name

Malus domestica Crispin



Related variety collections

Apple trees for southern Europe


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