Kidd's Orange Red

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• 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.

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Trained Kidd's Orange Red apple trees for sale

Next deliveries

For delivery from December 2025

• Large 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.

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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