Backyard apple breeding

Apple: Irish Peach

Shane Gadsby -
  • Vigour: High
  • Precociousness: Medium
  • Resistances: Resistant to cedar apple rust
  • Size of fruit: Small-Medium
  • Flowering: Early-Spring
  • Fruiting: Late Summer to early autumn
  • Cropping: Heavy
  • Ploidy: Diploid
  • Fruit colour: Red
  • Flesh colour: White
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Parentage: Irish Seedling x Yellow Transparent
  • Descendants: Balder
  • Biennialism: Strong tendency if not heavily thinned
  • Growth habit: Compact vase, strongly tip bearing
  • Self-fertile: No

Originating in County Sligo, Ireland, and first described in 1812 as part of an agricultural survey, and popularised by John Robertson, a nursery owner from Kilkenny and is best argued to be a descendant of Irish Seedling, and Yellow Transparent.

The Irish Peach apple enjoyed a long period of popularity in England, as well as much of the rest of the United Kingdom due to it's sweet taste, tropical flavours, and enticing aroma.

It is best eaten fresh, but has been noted to make excellent apple juice, due to it's low acid and sweet taste.

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.