FLANDRES COX

Availability (unless sold in the meantime)

	Season 2023/2024	Season 2024/2025
Trees	M9 T337	Unavailable
Graftwood / Budwood	√	√

General information

Origin : Sport of Cox’s Orange Pippin
Picking date : Early
Fruit size : 65/80
Uses : for farm shops and markets who needs some varieties with much flavour. Traditionnal variety in England

Tree description

Blossom date : 2 days before Golden Delicious
Pollinator : Gala, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Canopy, Malus Golden Gem, Malus Baugene
Vigour : average to good
Time till first cropping / yields : rapid / average yields
Susceptibility to alternate bearing / thinning : susceptible to alternate bearing when the crop load is too weak / easy thinning
Susceptibility / resistance to diseases : susceptible to scab, mildew and canker

Fruit description

Fruit description : intense red with a little bit of russet
Flesh / taste : yellow, fine, firm and juicy; sweet and sharp taste with many flavours
Storage potential : December in cold store, January in CA storage

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