Apple Flower Groups. 16 Can be used as a pollinizer Do not use as a pollinizer Lodi Liberty Summer Rambo Summer Mac Chestnut Crab Yellow Transparent Perrine Transparent Snapp Stayman Braeburn Mollies Delicious Jonamac Royal Empire Crown Empire Marshall Mac Pioneer Mac Idared Pink Lady Honeycrisp Manchurian Crab. Horizontal limbs encourage flowering buds while vertical limbs favour vegetative growth.
One of the simplest ways to see if two apple tree varieties can pollinate each other is to check their flowering or pollination groups - to make it easy we list recommended pollinators for every apple tree. 04112011 Apple varieties like plums pears and other fruit trees are grouped according to when they flower. As flowering time is critical fruit trees are classified into various flowering groups so that it is easy to choose cultivars that will flower at the same time and effect pollination.
The apple flower of most varieties requires cross-pollination for fertilization.
6 Coronation Frogmore Prolific Gascoynes Scarlet triploid Heusgens Golden Reinette King of the Pippins AGM Merton Beauty Mother AGM syn. To help ensure a good crop and pollination its best to grow two or more different cultivars from the same or adjacent Flowering Groups. We have adopted the RHS pollination group numbers which divide apple pear plum and cherry cultivars into 7 flowering periods. The average main flowering time for Sops-in-Wine in the UK is the fourth week of April.