Variety profile
Apple ‚Roter Boskoop’
Malus domestica · Rosaceae
- Ripening
- spät
- Harvest
- Week 40 to 43
- Vigour
- stark
- Origin
- Niederlande
- Introduced
- 1856
- Storage life
- 3 months
- Pollination group
- C
- Heritage variety
- Yes
- Triploid
- Yes
- Use
- Tafel, Lager, Backen
- Pollinator
- Elstar, Cox Orange
- Rootstock
- M9, M26, MM106
- Disease resistance
- Mehltau: mittel, Schorf: mittel
About this variety
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You will find that the ‚Roter Boskoop’ is a strong, tart, aromatic winter apple and one of the most well‑known old varieties. As a triploid it is hardly self‑fertile; plant a diploid variety nearby such as ‚Elstar’. It grows vigorously and starts bearing late, but then reliably.
Firm, acid‑forward flesh with plenty of spice. The classic apple for pies, baked apples, and robust table moments; after a few weeks of storage it becomes milder.
Care and diseases
Soil, feeding, pruning, companion planting and diseases apply to every variety of this species alike. You will find the full guidance on the species page.
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