Apple – Granny Smith

Plant family: Rosaceae

Plant origin: Western Asia. Granny Smith was developed at Ryde Horticultural College in Sydney.

Fruit description: Granny Smith fruit is 9 - 12cm in diameter. Mature trees typically bear 40 - 200 kilograms of apples each year. Fruit is aromatic, green in color with a creamy coloured or white flesh, crisp, and juicy. The fruit keeps very well especially if chilled.

Flowers: Apple trees blossom in Spring at the same time as the new leaves are produced. The flowers are a pretty pinkish white color

Growing conditions: Granny Smith is a small deciduous tree, 3 - 6 metres tall. It is usually pruned to a height to make picking the fruit easy.

Uses: Apples are delicious, refreshing sweet fresh eating fruit. They are extremely versatile, tasting wonderful in juice, pies, desserts, jellies, cakes, salads, casseroles, fresh muesli, stewed or dried. Apples can help make a cake moister. Granny Smith is slightly sour and is especially excellent for cooking.

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Pollination requirements: Self-Pollinating. But Granny Smith Apples can benefit from cross-pollination with Pink Lady which increases the fruit yield for both trees.

Harvest time Fruit ripens from December to Autumn. Pick earlier in tropical or subtropical climates as the fruit tends to degrade in hot weather.

Plant relatives

Special features: There is a very wide & interesting mythology and history around apples in many cultures.

Grown by method: Grafted Pot size: 6 litre

Plant growing Height and Width for pots or in the ground planting: Grows to 2.5 metres high by 1.5 metres wide if Planted in a Pot. Grows 4 metres high by 4 metres wide if Planted in the Ground.

Shipping plant pot or planter bag size: 6 litre