Backyard apple breeding

Apple: Grand'Mere

Shane Gadsby -

The "Grandmother" apple is a french apple that is lightly crispy, with a very sweet flavour.

  • Vigour: Low
  • Precociousness: Low
  • Resistances: Unknown
  • Size of fruit: Medium to large
  • Flowering: Mid-spring
  • Fruiting: Late-summer
  • Cropping: Medium
  • Ploidy: Diploid (?)
  • Fruit colour: Green-gold with minimal red blush
  • Flesh colour: White
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Parentage: Unknown
  • Descendants: Unknown
  • Biennialism: None observed
  • Growth habit: Spreading
  • Self-fertile: No

The Grand'Mere is an antique apple, appearing somewhere in the early 1800s, and by the 1920's was one of the most widely grown apples in the Loire Valley, France.

It has white flesh with a little crispness, while still be quite soft, and is highly aromatic.

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, which itself is limited as information in English is sparse...
This entry will be updated as the tree grows and bears.