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Porter's Perfection cider apple trees

Pick: Late-season    Flowering group: 3       Uses: Cider    Disease-resistance: Good
Porter's Perfection cider apple tree

Porter's Perfection is a 19th century English cider variety producing a bittersharp juice.

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Porter's Perfection cider apple trees for sale



Summary features of Porter's Perfection

Growing

Uses

Identification

  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Period of origin: 1800 - 1849
  • Fruit colour: Orange flush
  • Leaf colour: Green

Climate

  • Temperate climates


Pollination guide for Porter's Perfection

Porter's Perfection is in flowering group 3. Porter's Perfection is self-sterile and needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby. Since it flowers in the middle of the blossom season it can be pollinated by most other cider apple trees. Like all cider-apple varieties it can also be pollinated by most other apple varieties or crab-apples flowering at the same time.



How to grow Porter's Perfection cider apple trees

Porter's Perfection can lapse into bienneial bearing with age. This can be addressed by heavily thinning the fruitlets in late spring in the "on" year.



Historical details

Somerset, England - 19th century.



Botanical name

Malus domestica Porter's Perfection




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