Karmijn de Sonnaville apple

Anyone grow this Dutch variety? It's related to Cox's Orange Pippin. I ordered a semi-dwarf from Raintree.

Linda

It is a more acidic apple than Cox. My tree is bearing for the first time this year so I have not yet tasted it. It supposedly does not like heat very much so I am not sure how it will do for me.

Scott

Scott,

Hope you get some great apples from your tree. Do you have dwarf, semi or standard?

What apple variety can be used as a cross-pollinator?

Thanks!

Linda

Linda, it is on M26 which is somewhere between dwarf and semi-dwarf. It is a normal bloomer (not early or late) so most apples will work as pollinators.

If you want to know how the apples turned out, ask in the fall. I am growing around eight different Cox-like apples to see which one(s) will do well here. Many of them do not like hot weather but I am hoping a few of them will be good. This year I should get fruit on five of them for the first time: Rubinette, Cox (the original), Karmijn, Queen Cox, and Suntan.

Scott

I planted one 3 yrs ago and it grew into a very nicely formed healthy tree. I have about 25-30 semi dwarf apple trees. This spring when I pruned the limbs were all loaded with buds. They started to swell and then the tree just stopped and died. I have a Jonathan and a Tompkins King , same age , right beside it and they both are healthy and have a small crop of apples. I cannot figure out what happened to the Karmijn.
RED

Red, there are countless things that could have gone wrong. It could have gotten fireblight by the base (look for burnt-looking bark). It could have had a root disease (dig up the roots to see). It likely had nothing to do with the upper part of the tree.

Scott

It didn't have fire blight. I am very familiar with that Devil. I don't know about a root problem. It would take a backhoe to dig it up It was a good sized tree to only be 3 yrs old. I have room for about 3 more apples. I like dessert or eating apples. Any suggestions? I have Queen Cox, G. Delicious, Jonathan, Braeburn, Spitzenberg, Fuji, Gala, Thompkins King, Winter Banana,Honeycrisp, Transparent, Lodi(For cooking and drying). I was thinking of Ashmead Kernel.
Another problem-- I have 4 peach and 2 nectarines. They all have fruit but 1 nectarine has lost about 75% of the fruit to brown rot while the others(2 right next to it) seem to have escaped with no problems. I have sprayed regularly. Use Captan, Ziram, and Imoden.
RED

Red, Ashmeads Kernel is an excellent choice, hard to argue with that one.

For the brown rot, if that tree keeps going bad you may want to replace it. Every tree has a different degree of susceptibility. Make sure you are spraying around any hard rain at blossom time since that is when the infection gets hold. I use copper on my stone fruits in the spring, I don't know if its any better but I have had very little brown rot. Copper can't be sprayed on them later in the season.

Scott