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Kidd's Orange Red

Kidd's Orange Red
Kidd's Orange Red has received the RHS Award of Garden MeritKidd's Orange Red is listed in the RHS Plants for Pollinators
  • Keeping: 1-2 months Will keep in a cold store until Christmas
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

Kidd's Orange Red is a popular late-season Cox-style apple variety. It has an excellent flavour potential, and is therefore a good choice for training in a sunny sheltered spot.

The spring blossom is a particularly attractive feature of this variety - it has a more intense dark pink colour than most apple varieties.

Although primarily an apple for eating fresh, Kidd's Orange Red also produces a high quality sweet juice, with a pleasing thick texture.

Trained Kidd's Orange Red apple trees for sale

  • Tree form iconLarge Espalier (starter) tree £42.50
    Supplied with 1 tier and a leader, for training on as an espalier or palmette. Approx. mature size: 3m wide and 2.5m high. Potential for 3-5 tiers. MM106 bare-root.
    Sold-out for this season

Growing and Training

Like many Cox-style apples Kidd's Orange Red produces plenty of side-shoots which are ideal for training into different shapes.

It has a reputation as a bit of a shy cropper, but this is unlikely to be an issue if grown as a trained tree.

Fruit size can be on the small size so moderate thinning can be helpful as the fruitlets start to form.


Kidd's Orange Red characteristics

  • Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
  • Flowering group3
  • Pollinating othersAverage
  • AwardsRHS AGM (current) - 1993
  • Picking period (southern UK)mid-October
  • CroppingLight
  • Keeping1-2 months - Will keep in a cold store until Christmas
  • Food usesEating freshJuice
  • Disease resistanceAverage - Not usually troubled by scab or mildew
  • ScabSome resistance
  • Country of originNew Zealand
  • Period of origin1900 - 1949
  • Fruit colourOrange / Red