apple 'Elstar'

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An intensely flavoured, honeyed and crisp cultivar that produces heavy, regular crops of apples; greenish-yellow flushed red. A cross between 'Golden...

9 litre pot | M26 root stock | 1.5m

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Plant description

An intensely flavoured, honeyed and crisp cultivar that produces heavy, regular crops of apples; greenish-yellow flushed red. A cross between 'Golden Delicious' and 'Ingrid Marie', 'Elstar' is a dessert apple sold as a mini-standard, perfect for pots.

Please note that the pot in the photograph is not supplied with the plant (which is sent out in a simple nursery alternative), but we have a wide and wonderful range on our website to choose from.

Pollination information: This apple belongs to pollination group 3, and is not self fertile, so needs a pollinating partner to produce a crop of apples apples. Cross-pollinate with other apples in this group or those from group or those from groups 2 or 4, such as ‘Braeburn’ or ‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’.

Flowering period

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Plant features

Position

Full sun

Rate of growth

Average

Soil

Moderately fertile, moist but well-drained soil, or peat-free general purpose compost

Hardiness

Fully hardy

How to care for apple Elstar:

When planting your apple tree, prepare a hole up to three times the diameter of its root system. Fork over the base of the pit in readiness, incorporating plenty of organic matter into the backfill and planting hole. Place the plant in the planting hole and carefully refill, firming the soil around the roots to eliminate air pockets. Insert stake at this point if required.

Avoiding frozen and waterlogged soil, trees should be planted out as they arrive. If you've ordered a bare root tree, soak the roots in a bucket of water for half an hour prior to planting - or if this is not possible, they can be heeled in temporarily, covering their roots with soil, or potted up.

Keep the base of the tree weed free, fertilise at the beginning of each year water regularly during hot, dry spells.

The main prune should be done in the winter as long as it isn't frosty or freezing. Take out the 3D’s (dead, dying and diseased wood) and create an open shape. Then reduce the leaders back by a third. Aim to create an airy structure without any crisscrossing branches.

In August summer prune. Shorten any side shoots (or laterals) which are longer than 20cm back to three leaves. This will allow the sun to ripen the fruit and encourage more fruit buds. Make sure that the growth you’re cutting away feels firm to the touch.

Please note: The decorative pot shown is not included and is for presentation purposes only. Our trees are supplied in standard nursery pots, and the images showing young trees in pots are intended to give an idea of our larger plant’s height and form on arrival. We do offer a wide range of decorative pots separately if you’d like to recreate the look, although for long-term success, trees are best planted in the ground.

Please refer to our rootstock guide above for further assistance when selecting a fruit tree that would be suitable for growing in a large (at least 50cm or 20in Ø) pot, filled with a loam-based (John Innes) compost.

Please note:

This tree is deciduous so it will lose all its leaves in autumn, then fresh new foliage appears again each spring.

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