Backyard apple breeding

Apple: Redlove Era

Shane Gadsby -

A sweet-tart apple with complex berry flavour and red flesh.

  • Vigour: Medium
  • Precociousness: Medium
  • Resistances: Scab
  • Size of fruit: Medium
  • Flowering: Early
  • Fruiting: Mid-autumn
  • Cropping: Medium
  • Ploidy: Diploid
  • Fruit colour: Red
  • Flesh colour: Red
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Parentage: Not listed
  • Descendants: Unknown
  • Biennialism: None observed
  • Growth habit: Standard
  • Self-fertile: No

Developed by Markus Kobelt in 2010, in Gallen, Upper Rhine Valley (Switzerland).

Redlove apples have deep red flesh, which has been determined to have more than 30% more anti-oxidants (anthocyanin) than most other breeds, this is partially why they brown so slowly when cut.
They keep moderately well in storage (up to 2 months), but remain slightly tart.
Owing to their red-flesh heritage, they are less crisp than they are hard, although they are noticeably better than most other red-flesh varieties.

NOTE: I have yet to try this apple directly, and so have relied on others for information related to this variety.
This entry will be updated if I am able to purchase a tree.