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Pink Lady Apple
A variety of apple
How to sow pink lady apple: Bare root tree
Sun requirement for pink lady apple: Plant in Full Sun
The apple is a deciduous tree in the Rose family grown for it's sweet fruit. The apple originated in Central Asia and has spread across the world. There are now over 7,500 cultivars bred for a variety of climates and characteristics. Apples are propagated through grafting because seeds do not breed true.
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Pink lady apple facts
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Crop cycle
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Optimal light
What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For pink lady apple, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 8°C and a shortest growing cycle of 180 days at its best temperature, about 2250 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your pink lady apple will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
Growing pink lady apples
- Dig a wide hole and add compost 1 week before planting out
- Stake and tie the young tree at planting out
- Water the young tree at planting out every week
- Mulch around the trunk 2 weeks after planting out
- Prune to shape the tree 12 months after planting out
- Thin the fruit 4 weeks before first harvest
- Pick ripe apples at first harvest every week
- Prune after the leaves fall 6 months after first harvest
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Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Malus domestica Borkh.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Rosidae Rosales Rosaceae |
|---|---|
| Killing temperature | growth: -2 °C, rest: -30 °C |
| Life form | tree |
| Life span | perennial |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | deep (>>150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium, light |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
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