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Sweet Coppin
type: Cider, Juice
synonyms: Sweet Copin
identification: Medium size but can range to large; round to round-conic, can be irregular shaped. The skin is green maturing to pale yellow, often with a brownish-red blush on the sun-exposed face. Fairly large, dark-brown lenticels are widely scattered over the surface. The stem is short, woody and stout, set in a shallow cavity surrounded by a patch of russet that sometimes extends onto the shoulder. The calyx is partly open, medium size and set in a very flat/shallow, almost nonexistent basin.
characteristics: The flesh is white, soft. Sweet, marginally tannic and slightly tart. Browns heavily on exposure to air.
origins: Originated in the early 1700s in Exeter, Devon. It was grown extensively during the 1800s but then declined. More recently, it become a popular cider apple again and is grown widely on most continents.
cultivation: Vigorous, semi-spreading and precocious. A large tree on its own roots. Spur bearer with a pronounced tendency to produce fruit every other year. When it does produce, the crops are heavy.
cold storage: Does not store well but can be sweated for two or three weeks.
vulnerabilities: Susceptible to scab and powdery mildew.
harvest: Late in the fifth period and sometimes into the early part of the sixth.
notes: The LeBret is frequently mislabelled as Sweet Coppin.
juice character: A Devon-style cider apple. Intensely sweet; depending on the soil and season, it can have some bitter tannins. Regarded as vintage quality.
juice_classification: Sweet
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 15
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
tannins: 0.14
harvest period: 5
hardiness: 5
sg: 1.052
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