Goblet-trained cooking apple pollinator duo

This Self-fertile Cooking Apple Duo in a Goblet shape brings together the excellent varieties 'Golden Delicious' and 'Elstar', whose apples are as delicious to eat raw as they are cooked in compotes and pastries. Planted in the same garden, these two apple trees pollinate each other, ensuring a plentiful and tasty harvest in September-October.

It consists of:

- x1 'Golden Delicious' Apple Tree: widely cultivated in France, this variety is the most well-known among apple lovers. The tree has medium vigour, it bears fruit quickly and offers abundant and regular production. It produces uniformly golden yellow fruits, quite large, with a conical shape. Their very pale yellow flesh is firm, fine, crisp, fragrant, and balanced between sweetness and acidity. The flowering usually occurs at the end of April, it often escapes frosts, and the fruits are harvested in mid-September, still green. Golden apples can be stored until February in a cool place, although they tend to become slightly floury. This apple tree is not self-fertile. It is easy to grow in all regions and has good frost resistance.

- x1 'Elstar' Apple Tree: a relatively recent creation, it has gained a very large following. This apple tree has very good production. Reaching maturity as early as September, the apple is medium-sized and regular, perfect to eat, with a beautiful smooth and fine skin, yellow striped with red. Its flesh is crisp, very sweet, well-flavored, and refreshing. It is a very good apple to eat fresh, but it is also delicious in compotes and jellies. The fruits can be stored for a good part of the winter. The tree has medium vigour, is resistant to cold, but sensitive to summer heat. It is quite susceptible to common apple pests and diseases. Very productive, this apple tree is sometimes prone to alternate bearing, meaning that a year of high productivity can be followed by a year of low harvest.

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The apple tree is a native tree in Europe, especially in France where its presence has been documented since antiquity. It is a tree with a semi-erect, elegant habit. Its deciduous foliage falls in autumn. It is composed of very large, ovate leaves, slightly hairy and greenish-brown on the upper side, whitish-green underneath, deeply toothed. The flowering occurs in April and is not afraid of frosts. The apple tree is therefore suitable for cultivation in mountainous areas.

Golden and Elstar apples can of course be consumed fresh, but also in compotes and marmalades, in jams, in pastries, and in savory dishes, in combination with Normandy cheeses for example.

A goblet-trained fruit tree does not have a central leader (vertical main stem), but branches radiating from its trunk. This particular form allows for good penetration of sunlight and air into the branches, which promotes the development and ripening of the fruits while limiting the development of diseases.