Apple 'Chivers Delight' Malus domestica 'Chivers Delight' (D)

ABOUT
'Chivers Delight' is a late-season dessert apple with crisp, juicy flesh and a sweet, well-balanced flavour. It produces a good crop of red-flushed, yellow fruit on a tree of average vigour, ready to pick in mid-autumn and storing to mid-winter. It is self sterile; pollination group 4
About this plant
Names
Family
Rosaceae
Synonyms
apple 'Chivers Delight'
Characteristics
Foliage type
Deciduous
Height
4-8 metres
Spread
4-8 metres
Hardiness zones
H6
Light
Full Sun
Pruning
Prune according to chosen training method. See apple pruning
Soil
Loam, Sand, SoilClay
Suitable locations
Hardiness zone
Wall-side Borders Cottage & Informal Garden City & Courtyard Gardens Patio & Container Plants
Propogation
Propagate by chip budding or grafting onto a clonal rootstock for fruit. The rootstock used will largely determine the vigour of the tree. Fruit grown from pips will not resemble the parent
Pests
May be affected by aphids, including woolly aphid and rosy apple aphid, fruit tree red spider mite, codling moth and other caterpillars
Diseases
Average resistance to apple scab and powdery mildews, susceptible to apple canker. Apples are also susceptible to brown rot, honey fungus and blossom wilt