Backyard apple breeding

Apple: Pitmaston Pineapple

Shane Gadsby -

A russeted golden apple, that is sweet, nutty, and has hints of pineapple

  • Vigour: Medium
  • Precociousness: Medium
  • Resistances: Resistant to scab
  • Size of fruit: Small
  • Flowering: Early spring
  • Fruiting: Early autumn
  • Cropping: Medium
  • Ploidy: Diploid
  • Fruit colour: Yellow
  • Flesh colour: yellow
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Parentage: Golden Pippin x Unknown
  • Descendants: Unknown
  • Biennialism: None observed
  • Growth habit: Upright spreading
  • Self-fertile: No

A chance seedling of Golden Pippin discovered by the steward to Thomas Foley of Witley Court, Worcestershire (UK), Mr White, in the late 1700s, and first marketed as Pitmaston Pineapple in 1845 by John Williams of Pitmaston House.

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.