Apple 'Pixie' Malus domestica 'Pixie' (D)

ABOUT
'Pixie' is a dessert cultivar in pollination group 4. Suitable for northerly, colder, higher rainfall areas. Skin greenish-yellow flushed orange-red. Intensely aromatic and with a Cox-like flavour, but sharper and firmer-fleshed. Good to heavy crops are produced, but the fruit can be small unless thinned. Season of use December to March
About this plant
Names
Family
Rosaceae
Synonyms
apple 'Pixie'
Characteristics
Foliage type
Deciduous
Height
4-8 metres
Spread
4-8 metres
Hardiness zones
H6
Light
Full Sun, Partial Shade
Pruning
Regular pruning is required - see apple pruning; spur bearing
Soil
Loam, Sand, SoilClay
Suitable locations
Hardiness zone
Wall-side Borders Cottage & Informal Garden Wildlife Gardens
Propogation
Propagate by chip budding or grafting onto a clonal rootstock for fruit. The rootstock used will largely determine the vigour of the tree
Pests
Aphids, woolly aphid, rosy apple aphid, fruit tree red spider mite, mussel scale, codling moth and caterpillars are the main pests on edible apples
Diseases
Can be affected apple scab, apple canker, powdery mildews, blossom wilt and honey fungus