Backyard apple breeding

Apple: Pine Golden Pippin

Shane Gadsby -

Sweet and juicy russeted apple, with a noticeable taste of Pineapple!

  • Vigour: Low to medium
  • Precociousness: Low
  • Resistances: Highly susceptible to scab.
  • Size of fruit: Medium
  • Flowering: Mid-spring
  • Fruiting: Late Autumn to mid-winter
  • Cropping: Medium
  • Ploidy: Diploid
  • Fruit colour: Yellow (russeted)
  • Flesh colour: Yellow
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Parentage: Unknown
  • Descendants: Unknown
  • Biennialism: None observed
  • Growth habit: Upright spreading (spur bearing)
  • Self-fertile: No

An antique russeted apple with strong pineapple flavours, first described in 1863, and later (1875) appeared in Robert "Dr" Hogg's "The Fruit Manual".

Often used for ciders due to it's unique flavour and high sugar content,. whist still being dry enough for cider pressing.

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 graft grows and bears.