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Filippa Apple tree

Owner: Willem

Location:  Dedemsvaart, OVERIJSSEL, Netherlands

Age:Planted in about 2012
Age of this tree:14 years
Soil:peaty sand 
Climate at this location:mild sea climate
Pruning:Better in summer after blossoming
Tree form:Bush (wider at top than bottom)
Height:Between 6ft / 2m and 15ft / 4m
Cropping:Medium crops
Growth:This tree grows easily here
Herbicides:Manual treatment (hoeing and weeding)
Pesticides:Un-treated
Local pests:Codling moth, wasps, monilia

Owner's comments

Apples fall off easily before ripening

Season records for this tree

  • 2022

    Spring blossom: 25 April
  • 2021

    Harvest: 2nd week September  100kg / 220lbs
    First
  • 2020

    Spring blossom: 22 April
    Harvest: 4th week August  20kg / 44lbs
    Size: 4.5m / 15.0ft high   5.0m / 16.7ft wide
    Codling moth: Severe attack
    Brown rot (monilia) after damage by wasps or codling moth of 50% of the harvest. Apples started falling in July already so we could not eat them but made lots of apple sauce.
  • 2019

    Harvest: 4th week September  5kg / 11lbs
    Size: 5.0m / 16.7ft high   5.0m / 16.7ft wide
  • 2016

    Size: 3.5m / 11.7ft high   2.5m / 8.3ft wide
    This tree is now 4 year old. This was the first harvest apart from one or two apples in 2014. No harvest in 2015