Backyard apple breeding

Apple: Calwells Keeper

Shane Gadsby -

A beautiful cooking apple with yellow, soft flesh.

  • Vigour: Medium
  • Precociousness: Medium
  • Resistances: Unknown
  • Size of fruit: Medium
  • Flowering: Early
  • Fruiting: Early
  • Cropping: Medium
  • Ploidy: Diploid
  • Fruit colour: Red
  • Flesh colour: Yellow
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Parentage: Unknown
  • Descendants: Unknown
  • Biennialism: Unknown
  • Growth habit: Standard
  • Self-fertile: No

A chance seedling discovered in Thirsk, Yorkshire (England). Little else is documented about this variety.

NOTE: I have yet to try this apple directly, having only grafted it in 2021, and so have relied on others for information related to this variety.
This entry will be updated as the tree grows and bears.